So, You want some deep Sci-fi books
Hey, some of us may know sci-fi as only blasting and spaceships, strange time machines and other similar stuff, but is that all sci-fi can offer?
Some of us may be interested in more deep topics, like the unconscious, robots and human interaction, political questions about future government. Sci-fi is not only cool futuristic stuffs, but it’s a genre that can explore the limits of our mind and of our understanding of the world. By simulating our possibilities in a future world, we can explore our questions in a much more deep and intuitive level.
So, here’s a list of books that I think could fit into this philosophical type of sci-fi novel. Some of them may be very well known, but I think they are a very great read for all the fan of the genre and for people passionate about books in general.
1. 1984 by George Orwell
A must for all the fan of the genre, and for all the bibliophiles out there. In this book we can find how our society could evolve during totalitarianism. How we would find ourselves in a world always monitored from the cameras installed in all the cities. But over the more sci-fi topics there’s the question about governmental rules, about individualism, the subtle battle between capitalism and communism, the dread of finding out how someone has been living for all of his life. This classic is considered as one of the best books of all time, and I think it truly fits his name.
2. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
A less known author, but a great book to read. In his best known novel the Polish author dive into the unconscious of the people. How our fear take place in our own obscure mind, what we fear became real in this novel, and we have to take courage to accept our past. The landscape he delineate his very well written, with strange creature and entities of space, that resemble our own brain in some manner. This book is considered a very philosophical work by many and may cast a light into our own understanding.
3. Brave new world by Aldous Huxley
The famous English writer has been a teacher of George Orwell, and some people consider Huxley as more contemporary, true, and a greater seeker than the more known Orwell. In this work he goes into the search of how our society and how the individual could be shaped by technology. The question about the use of drug, the indoctrination gave by the television, the use of artificial breed, not only arise question of ethics, but even of bioethics, of science ethics, and understanding how simple technology can turn ourselves, may help us in this world of ours.
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Some people may know this book from the film Blade Runner with Harrison Ford. In this book there are so many questions, but one of them stand out as the queen: identity. The question about our own self identity, of how we can say that we are still ourselves, how we can know that we have not been built, that we have a memory that remain somewhat the same. And after this question, the less daunting question about the difference between us and the robot, how we can find out that others are not machines, and that they are humans life us. If the film Blade Runner is a true masterpiece, the book really stand out into the masterpieces world out books.
The list could be much more longer, but I have not read many of them, so I preferred to put only the ones I know and the ones that I really liked. I hope that this list could help many people to like the genre and for the ones who really love the sci-fi world, to enjoy a great read.
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