The 8 books on this stack
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Marc-Uwe Kling 2017 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
You'll keep turning it over for days · a society that controls everything
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
In the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you?
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Isaac Asimov 1953
Why it's on the stack
Full of big ideas · it grabs you with a mystery
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Following the iconic I, Robot, the next adventure in the Robot series finds detective Elijah Baley swept into one of the most emotionally charged and dangerous situations in Earth’s history when he’s…
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Martha Wells 2017 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Funny, and it bites · the life of someone made, not born
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A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.
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Annalee Newitz 2017
Why it's on the stack
It messes with your head · the life of someone made, not born
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Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap medicines for those who can't otherwise afford them.
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Ted Chiang 2010
Why it's on the stack
A small, intimate story · tender and sad at once
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What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, "Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best.
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Becky Chambers 2016 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It changes how you see things · it hurts, and then it heals
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Nominated for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel! Shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award!
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Iain Banks 1988 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It messes with your head
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The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction.
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Dan Simmons 1991 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It messes with your head · a story hidden inside another
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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike.