55 books
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18 voters
Listopia > S. Zahler's votes on the list Mind-bending Science Fiction (35 Books)
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Diaspora
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Childhood’s End
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Stories of Your Life and Others
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Dark Integers and Other Stories
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Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
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Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
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Quarantine
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Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)
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Martian Time-Slip
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Timelike Infinity (Xeelee Sequence, #2)
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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Distress
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The Lifecycle of Software Objects
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Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
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Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
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The Gods Themselves
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Between the Strokes of Night
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Light (Kefahuchi Tract, #1)
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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The Eye and the Finger
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"The major part of this collection is devoted to macabre science fiction or melancholic science fiction, but unlike a lot of the stuff I've read from this era, most of the Wandrei tales have some real scientific underpinnings, even if some of these are no longer accurate (read: "ether"). Readers familiar with CAS's ultra weird forays in sci-fi (A Star-Change & The Eternal World) will have a good reference point, though Wandrei's work is more physics oriented and a lot more humanistic.
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rated it 4 stars
Included in this book are a quest for fundamental particles (Earth Minus), general cosmology and cosmogeny, as well as a rudimentary musing on quantum states (Finality Unlimited). Many of these science fiction stories have a macabre or horrific tone and very thoughtfully conceived aliens/otherworldly elements-- The Crystal Bullet would be a perfect companion piece for HPL's The Colour Out of Space, and The Monster from Nowhere reads like the best 50s sci-fi movie never made. And Wandrei's uncommonly chilling horror science fiction tale Black Fog is simply one of the best short stories I've ever read." See Review |
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Sun of Suns (Virga, #1)
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Time Out of Joint
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A Scanner Darkly
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Ubik
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The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
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The Claw of the Conciliator
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The Ophiuchi Hotline
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A Storm of Wings (Viriconium #2)
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Solaris
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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Blood Music
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Axiomatic
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Permutation City
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