The Science Fiction Reading List

Presenting the book list from the much-loved course HM341 Introduction to Science Fiction by Aditinath Sarkar. Courtesy the professor himself.

1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
3. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
5. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin
6. Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Tanner
7. The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
8. The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
9. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (edited) by Edward James
10. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
11. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
12. The Films of Ridley Scott by Richard Alan Schwartz
13. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
14. God & Golem, Inc. by Norbert Weiner
15. Hal’s Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality (edited) by David G Stork
16. The Island of Dr. Moreau by HG Wells
17. Neuromancer by William Gibson
18. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
19. Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Judith B Kerman
20. Signal Red by Rimi B Chatterjee
21. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
22. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by RL Stevenson
23. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
24. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
25. We by Yvgeny Zemyatin
26. The Science Fiction Century, Volume 1 (edited) by David G Hartwell
27. The Science Fiction Century, Volume 2 (edited) by David G Hartwell
28. The Unicorn Expedition and Other Stories by Satyajit Ray
29. The Diary of a Space Traveller and Other Stories by Satyajit Ray
30. The Return of Vaman: A Science-Fiction Novel by Jayant V Narlikar
31. Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction by Damien Keown
32. Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Sue Hamilton