1.《1984》
George orwell
1984 is an outstanding political fable and a science fiction novel. The work depicts the state of human existence in a totalitarian society, like a warning label that never fades, warning the world to beware of this expected darkness becoming a reality. Over the decades, its vitality has grown stronger and stronger, and it is known as one of the most influential literary classics of the 20th century.
2. Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel published by Ray Bradbury in 1953 and is considered one of his best works. The novel depicts a futuristic American society in which books are outlawed and "firefighters" burn any books they find. The title of the book refers to what Bradbury understands as the temperature at which paper spontaneously ignites. Interpretations of the novel have focused on the historical role of book burning to suppress dissent. In a 1956 radio interview, Bradbury stated that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because he was worried about the threat of American book burning. In later years, he articulated his motivation for writing the book in more general terms. The novel has won several awards. In 1954, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literary Award and the California Commonwealth Club Gold Medal. The book has since won the Prometheus "Hall of Fame" award in 1984 and the 1954 "Vintage" Hugo Award in 2004, one of only four awards for the best vintage Hugo novel ever awarded. Bradbury won a Grammy Speaking Award-nominated version for his 1976 audiobook. The novel has been adapted several times.
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of five books in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" comedy science fiction "trilogy". The novel is based on the first four parts of the Adams radio series of the same name. The novel was first published in London on October 12, 1979. In the first three months, 250,000 copies were sold. The title of this novel is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional hitchhiking guide written in encyclopedic form.
4. "Time Machine"
H.G. Wells
The Time Machine is a science fiction novel published in 1895 by H.G. Wells. It is widely believed that Wells popularized the concept of time travel by using a means of transport that allowed operators to travel purposefully and selectively. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such vehicles. The Time Machine has since been adapted into two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, as well as numerous comic book adaptations. It has also indirectly inspired more works of fiction in many mediums.
5. "Frankenstein"
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein is a novel written by English writer Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young science student who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley began writing the story when he was eighteen years old, and the novel was published when he was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. The second edition was published in France in 1823, and Shelley's name appears in the second edition. Shelley traveled through Europe in 1814, traveling along the German Rhine, stopping at Gernsheim, just 17 kilometers away. Far from Frankenstein Castle, an alchemist experimented there two centuries ago. Later, she travels to the Geneva area – where most of the story takes place – while her companions, especially her lover and future husband Percy Shelley, talk about the subject of electrification and other similar mystical ideas. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polydori decided to hold a contest to see who could write the best horror story.
6. "I, Robot"
Isaac Asimov
I, Robot is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov. The stories first appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Amazing Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950, and were subsequently compiled into a book in 1950, independently published by Gnome Press, with an initial edition of 5,000 copies. The stories are intertwined through framing narratives, in which the fictional Dr. Susan Calvin tells each story to a 21st-century journalist. While these stories can be read individually, they all share a theme about human, robotic, and ethical interactions, and when combined, they tell the larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robots. Several of the stories feature Dr. Calvin, the chief robotics psychologist at the American robotics and robotics company, a major manufacturer of robots.
7. "Dune"
Frank Herbert
Dune is an epic science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert in 1965. It won the Hugo Award in 1966 and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. Dune is the best-selling science fiction novel in the world and the beginning of the Dune saga. Set in the distant future, in a feudal interstellar society where the noble families who control the planets are loyal to Emperor Padisha, Dune tells the story of the young Paul Atredis, whose noble family accepts the stewardship of the desert planet Arrakis. Since the planet is the only source of a "spice" mixture, the most important and valuable substance in the universe, controlling Arrakis is a coveted but dangerous undertaking. The story explores the multi-layered interplay of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion, as the various forces of the empire pit each other in the struggle for control of Errakis and its "spices". Herbert wrote five sequels: "Dune Messiah", "Children of Dune", "Dune God-Emperor", "Dune Heresy", and "Templar: Dune".
8. "War of the Worlds"
H.G. Wells
War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by British author H.G. Wells. First serialized in 1897, the book tells the story of one of Surrey's unsung protagonists and his younger brother in London when Earth was invaded by Martians. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the first stories to detail the conflict between humans and an alien race. This novel is one of the most reviewed works among the science fiction classics. The world war is divided into two parts, the first: the arrival of the Martians and the second: Earth under the rule of the Martians. The narrator, who asked not to be named, is a writer with philosophical leanings who struggles to get back to his wife as he witnesses the Martians ravaging the southern country outside London. The first book also recounts the experiences of his brother (also unnamed), who describes the aggravation of the situation in the capital, forcing him to board a paddle steamer near Tillingham on the Essex coast to escape the Martian attack.
9. "Ender's Game"
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game is a military science fiction novel written in 1985 by American author Orson Scott Card. Set in the future of Earth, the novel tells the story of humanity in danger after two clashes with an alien insect, the Zerg. In preparation for the anticipated third invasion, children, including the novel's protagonist Ander Vigin, are trained from a very young age in increasingly difficult games, including some zero-gravity games in which Ender's tactical genius is on display. Card released an updated version of Ender's Game in 1991, altering some political facts to more accurately reflect the times; Including, for example, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. The response to the book has been generally positive. It has also become recommended reading for many military organizations, including the U.S. Marine Corps. Ender's Game won the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
10. "Wrinkles of Time"
Madeleine Engel
The Wrinkles of Time is a science fiction novel first published in 1962 by American author Madeleine L'Enkle. The story revolves around a young girl whose father, a government scientist, goes missing after working on a mysterious project called "Hypercube". The book won the Newbury Prize, the Sekoa Book Award, and the Lewis Carroll Bookshelf Prize, and was runner-up with the Hans Christian Andersen Award. This is the first in a series of books by Langall about Murray and the O'Keeffe family.
11. "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
Jules verne
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" is a classic science fiction novel published by French writer Jules Verne in 1870. The novel follows Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, with Professor Pierre Aronax and his servant Conseil and Canadian whaler Ned Land being washed aboard their ship. On board the Nautilus, the trio embark on an undersea journey around the world.
12. "Base"
Isaac Asimov
The past is history, and yesterday is history. Asimov is different, his "Base" series is written about "the history of the future", "the history of the distant future", "the history of tomorrow"!
Asimov, the "historian of the future" and the "Taishi Gong" of the United States, uses "epic" strokes and grand chapters of the "base" series to tell the readers the twists and turns of the story from the "Galactic Empire", from the first base (often called "base") and the second base, and from the "mule", and dedicates the "future history" to the readers vividly.
"Base" is the first part of the "Base" series of trilogy. The Galactic Empire, which has ruled the galaxy for 12,000 years, has gradually declined. At this time, only Harry Shelton, the grandmaster of the history of the heart, foresaw that in the future, everyone in the galaxy would go through a dark period of 30,000 years, full of ignorance, barbarism and war. Shelton then set up a gathering of the Empire's best scientists to establish a "base" on a desolate planet on the edge of the galaxy, hoping that it would become a beacon of hope for future generations of humanity.
13. "Chronicles of Mars"
Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles is a collection of science fiction short stories written by Ray Bradbury in 1950 that chronicles the story of humanity's colonization of Mars by escaping the beleaguered and eventual nuclear destruction of Earth, as well as the conflict between the indigenous Martians and the neocolonists. Somewhere between a collection of short stories and a situational novel, the book contains stories from Bradbury that were originally published in science fiction magazines in the late '40s of the 20th century. The stories are loosely woven together with a series of short interstitial vignettes for publication.
14. "Brave New World"
Aldous Huxley
Published in 1932, Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's most outstanding masterpiece and one of the most famous dystopian literary classics of the 20th century.
It is an allegorical work that shows Huxley's vision of the future of human society: through the most effective scientific and psychological engineering, human beings, who have been hereditarily and genetically designed to be members of society of all classes, are completely reduced to docile machines, individuality and freedom are stifled, and literature and art are on the verge of destruction. Following Brave New World, Huxley's 1958 treatise Return to the Brave New World was followed by an eloquent work in which the author used his extensive sociological and anthropological knowledge to compare aspects of modern society with the allegorical picture he conceived in Brave New World, such as overpopulation, propaganda and brainwashing, and chemical persuasion, arguing that his early pessimistic predictions were becoming a reality. This book includes all of Huxley's two most classic masterpieces.
15. "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Arthur S. C. Clark
The mysterious black slate enlightened the civilization of the humans of Earth in prehistoric times. Three million years later, the same slate was found on the moon, and the slate immediately emitted an electromagnetic signal in the direction of Saturn as soon as it was unearthed. The United States sent the spacecraft "Discovery" to Saturn to find out the truth. The spaceship's supercomputer, Howl, went berserk, killing three hibernating spacemen and turning Frank Poole into a space drifter, with only David Bowman sparing. The surviving Bowman arrives at Saturn alone and discovers another, larger black slate...
Among Arthur C. Clarke's many works, the "Space Odyssey" tetralogy is the most popular, and he uses a wealth of first-hand space science information to create scenes that are more innovative than real space technology; And his solid scientific background makes the scientific and technological plots mentioned in the work even more persuasive.