20 religious books in the genre of science fiction
Educational Program Books / / December 19, 2019
1. "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne
Liedenbrock professor and his nephew Axel find and decipher the mysterious manuscript. Its author - Alchemist, who claims that there is a whole separate ecosystem in the center of the planet. In search of ancient dinosaurs and strange plants heroes go into the bowels of the earth, not knowing that there will be found.
Jules Verne - one of the founding fathers of the genre science fiction. He was a childhood dream to travel, and when he grew up, he wrote books about them, have become classics. In his work the author is not limited to wandering on existing sites, and fantasized about those that could be outside of reality.
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2. "Time Machine", HG Wells
The hero of the novel goes to far into the future with the help of an ingenious design. From the XIX century, he enters a world where progress could not overcome the social problems, but only aggravated them. Humanity is divided into two types - the Morlocks and Eloi. Leaving time machine unattended guest soon discovers that she's gone. This means that it is stuck there.
HG Wells was the first who wrote a book about time travel using a complex mechanical devices. Through this novel appeared subgenre of "time travel in fiction", in which the hero has the technical ability to go into the past or future.
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3. "Aelita" Alexei Tolstoy
Tolstoy wrote the novel "Aelita" 40 years before the first manned flight into space. His characters have gone to Mars and found there a civilized humanoid society. But they struck the style of the board of the local dictator Tuskub and economic inequality.
Soon, humans are the cause of the unrest on the red planet. The position of the main character is compounded by the fact that Aelita, daughter Tuskub, falls in love with him against the wishes of his father.
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4. "Professor Dowell's Head", Alexander Belyaev
Marie Laurent arranged assistant to a successful Parisian surgeon at Kern surname. She accidentally reveals his secret: in the course of the experiment the doctor managed to revive a man's head separated from the body.
The owner's head, Professor Dowell, died under mysterious circumstances. In the past, Marie knew him. She learns from him that the surgeon is actually a criminal who does terrible things, and decides that it must stop.
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5. "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
In XXVI century consumer culture won the final victory. People no longer believe in anything other than the production of goods and services for which they live and work. Society is like an ant colony, where everyone is assigned a role. Children no longer appear naturally. They are grown in incubators. Their role in society is predetermined: someone will be a handyman, and someone - the elite.
The only person born mother, trying to change the system and to get people to the concept of freedom and beauty. But do not understand it. Here is this brave new world.
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6. "I, Robot", by Isaac Asimov
"I, Robot" - is nine stories, the memories of the protagonist Susan Calvin. She was born in the end of XX century, when over another World War and began active exploration of space. For this problem to mass-produce robots with artificial intelligence. Susan talks about the interaction of smart, but devoid of emotion machines, and people with their difficult moral dilemmas.
It is here that Asimov first published the three main laws of robotics:
- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- A robot must obey all orders, which gives a person, except where such orders conflict with the First Law.
- A robot must protect its own security, to the extent that it does not conflict with the First or second law.
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7. "The Martian Chronicles" Ray Bradbury
According to Ray BradburyBy the beginning of the XXI century we should have to colonize Mars. The chronicles he collected works about the life of earthlings on the home planet, and there, far away in space. The stories are not built in one universe, the entourage varies from story to story.
The red planet entirely populated by people, the newcomers stumble upon Aboriginal resistance, the astronauts during the expedition is something mysterious. Remain unchanged humor of the author and his peaceful philosophy.
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8. "Andromeda", Ivan Efremov
The novel describes the ideal future with perfect people. They are healthy, friendly, functional and well educated. Regular flights into space are no longer a dream, but in the world there be calmness and understanding. But even in such immaculate place has problems.
For example, on a neighboring planet is not so accommodating form of life. Yefremov also described one of the protagonists of apathy, of symptoms resemble depression or emotional burnoutWhen them have not yet decided to speak out loud.
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9. "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
Scientists conducting an experiment to improve the mental abilities of a laboratory mouse. The result was a success, and they were quick to use the method in humans. These falls Charlie overburdened cleaner, who gladly agreed to the risky operation.
Soon guinea umneet. He quickly mastered the new knowledge and skills, and after a while it becomes smarter than those who made this experiment. But Charlie notices that with a mouse starts to happen something strange, and fears that he may repeat her fate.
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10. "Land of Crimson Clouds", Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Earthlings equip an expedition to the mysterious Venus. Previous attempts to land on it ended in failure. Before the crew should a serious task: to test a new type of media, which should put an end to a series of failures. Besides the bowels of Venus hide dangerous ore sample to be delivered to the Earth.
Fortunately, the flight is successful. The team touches the surface of the planet. But triumphantly raised hands still very early. Dangerous adventures are just beginning.
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11. "Solaris", Stanislaw Lem
Roman mystery Lem tells about the life of the hero on the space station in the distant future. Psychologist Chris Kelvin joins the crew of researchers on the planet Solaris. Fairly quickly, he realizes that there is something wrong.
One of the scholars shortly before the arrival of Chris committed suicide, the other is in voluntary confinement, and the third is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The reason for everything that happens is in the mysterious ocean of Solaris, which has the ability to create a phantom, which reduce people crazy.
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12. "Stranger in a strange country," Robert A. Heinlein
Mike Smith - an orphan, whose Martians picked up and brought up as his own child. Once for the first time on home soil, he does not feel at home. The hero is not like the rudeness and ignorance of people. Compared with fragile and delicate inhabitants of Mars, they seem to be savages.
Despite the fact that Heinlein slightly exaggerated neotosannost future earthlings, much fiction the novel is shown accurately. Mike will now have to either accept the new circumstances, any attempt to change society. He chooses the latter.
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13. "Dune" by Frank Herbert
This is the first novel in the series, which introduces the reader to the complex world of "Dune Chronicles." Mankind has long gone beyond their planet and now inhabits the entire galaxy. But changed only the external decoration. Inside, people are the same. Their war-torn, they seek to gain power by any means and resources put above human life.
The story begins with the fact that two powerful families can not share one planet. And while they are fighting among themselves, thirsty population and drought is the new ruler, which was ready to go anywhere, even if it means civil war.
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14. "The exchange of minds", Robert Sheckley
In the future, do not necessarily leave the family home to be on another planet. Just move your mind into the body of another creature. But, of course, it is not so simple. Wanting to travel, Marvin Flynn relocating consciousness into the body of a Martian. That, in turn, holds the body of the hero.
Only after the completion of all necessary procedures Marvin realizes that he had been deceived. Inhabitant of Mars searching on the home planet of fraud. And yet earthling trying to figure out what he should do, the attacker takes his body to an unknown destination.
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15. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", Philip K. Dick
Another name for the novel - "Blade Runner." Mankind has finally destroyed the planet at the time of the next world war in the near future. Is on the ground is hazardous to health, and people went to space colonies. But there are those who remain.
Relocated as assistants give androids that looks no different from a living person. Some have such advanced intelligence that do not want to serve the people. They kill the owners and run to earth in order to avoid punishment. The task of the protagonist Rick Deckard calculate them and destroy.
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16. "2001: A Space Odyssey," Arthur C. Clarke
Earthlings find a strange object like a stone. It sends a strong momentum in the space, and the scientists manage to see where he directed. Iapetus signal reaches the planet, and the people sent an expedition there. But for her to know for certain only artificial intelligence built into the spacecraft. He is forbidden to tell this secret to the crew.
The team members are not aware where and what to actually fly, provide on-board guidance computer, contrary to its mission. Very soon the car tired of this confusion, and she begins to act against the interests of the people putting their lives at risk.
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17. "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Although the novel is considered autobiographical, to get to the bottom, it is necessary to delve into metaphors and bypass the trap of the author. He mixed the seemingly disparate genres - realism and science fiction. It begins in Dresden in the days World War II. Soldier Billy Pilgrim gets under bombardment.
Later, he was kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. They reveal the secret of time: it is not flowing, the events do not follow one after the other. By the same principle and built a novel. Billy is like a trip through time: it runs forward, it is somewhere in the past. But the main question remains, what is happening to him, and how this is linked the war.
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18. "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
Arthur Dent lived quietly until someone did not have to destroy it for the sake of building a new road. Permitting paper ready, construction is about to begin, but the hero does not fall into despair. Not finding the best way to fight, he falls to the ground. If a bulldozer and go, it is only over his dead body.
And then there are more serious difficulties. It turns out that all the home planet of Arthur awaits a similar fate. She stands in the way of the galactic highway and subject to demolition. Saving himself, Arthur and his friend, an alien fleeing from the Earth. On the way, they will know the answer to the ultimate question of life and the universe.
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19. "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
The novel opens with the same name is not yet complete cycle. It all begins with an attack on the solar system from the outside. Nasekomovidnye enemies of humanity zhukery nearly destroyed the planet's population. People barely repelled two invasions, and the aggressors are preparing the third.
Andrew Wiggin named Ender - a brilliant child. Since childhood, he prepared for the fact that it will become the military commander. And the lead of the army, which finally will break zhukerov. In addition to difficulties during training, Ender still have to deal with family problems.
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20. "Martian", Andy Weir
Suddenly flown sandstorm causes emergency evacuation command, landed on Mars. Retreating to the ship, they felt that their comrade was killed, and departed without him. But Mark was alive. Due to technical problems, he was left without a means of communication and can not send a message to Earth.
Next the ship will arrive only after four years. Now the hero must not only think about how to survive this long period, but also to get to the place where a new mission land.
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