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The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In the past century many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by our upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. Steven Pinker's profound and essential book shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature ...Show more
The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
In the deep glens of Massachusetts, in the wild hills of Vermont, and in Australia's sandy wastes, unfathomable things lurk. Things that shine with an unnatural light, that speak and buzz strangely in the night, that prowl in the mind. Things not of our Earth. Widely considered to be the most significan ...Show more
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century. His ornate, phantasmagorical writing probes the furthest reaches of the universe while remaining deeply and particularly human. The Cyberiad, one of Lem's most beloved works, follows the ...Show more
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A synthesis of unifying ideas arising from quantum theory, the theory of computation, epistemology and the theory of evolution, this book explores the deep connections between the progress of knowledge of the world and the process of change in the world itself.
The Hair Carpet Weavers by Andreas Eschbach
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach's mysterious, poignant space opera explores the absurdity of work and of life itself. 'A novel of ideas that evokes complex emotions th ...Show more
Trafalgar by Angelica Gorodischer
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Science fiction meets magical realism in this brilliant novel from one of Latin America's best-loved science-fiction writers In the cafes and bars of Rosario, Argentina, there are sure to be many tall tales told. But none, perhaps, quite as spectacular as those recounted by Trafalgar Medrano. With a cof ...Show more
Untouched By Human Hands by Robert Sheckley
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Often considered to be Robert Sheckley's best short story collection, Untouched By Human Hands displays all of the author's signature surreal humour and eye for the unreal. Featuring human space exploration from the perspective of appalled aliens, darkly comic dystopias and wry fables of technological d ...Show more
Warm Worlds and Otherwise by James Tiptree Jr.
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Daring, energetic, and struck through with linguistic inventiveness, Warm Worlds and Otherwise is one of the most influential short story collections in all of science fiction, and one of the principle achievements of James Tiptree Jr - the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon.Demonstrating Tiptree's eye f ...Show more
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Yevgeny Zamyatin's page-turning science fiction adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel that became the basis for the tales of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, among so many others. Its messag ...Show more