2/ Orphans of the Sky, by Heinlein. One of the original generation ship stories.
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3/ Hull Zero Three, by Greg Bear. A very very different take on a similar concept.
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4/ The Machine Stops, by E M Forster (1909). The prototype for Logan's Run, THX1138 and a dozen other similar stories
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5/ This Time of Darkness, H M Hoover (juvenile / YA). In a somewhat similar vein. Imagine the movie Dredd, but without violence, following a pair of 12 year old kids trying to escape Mega City One. Still haunts me. Reread it a dozen times, as recently as last year.
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6/ Farmer in the Sky, Heinlein. (juvenile). Little House on the Prairie, on Ganymede. Got me interested in farming / homesteading back when I was ~10 or so.
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7/ Little Heroes, Norman Spinrad. An overlooked cyberpunk treasure. I'd call it "dated", but if you're looking for cyberpunk, we can both agree to call it "retro" instead.
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8/ Millenium, by John Varley. Classic time travel caper.
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9/ Slow Apocalypse, by John Varley. Small scale apocalyptic / prepper-adjacent novel, from a great author, not a red tribe ghetto writer.
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10/ Revenger, by Alastair Reynolds. Robert Louis Stephenson pirate tail, set in the far future, using rigorous hard science, but with a perfectly nautical 18th century tone.
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Replying to @MorlockP
Didn’t get Reynolds accused of Antisemitism because of this one?
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https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/all-the-merry-men-drowned-in-the-sea … is just one review that alleges antisemitism b/c of those Alien bankers.
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