Fiction
The best fiction.
Dune
Frank Herbert
Paul Atreides inherits a desert planet and a destiny he cannot escape. Politics, ecology, religion, and violence woven into the grandest world-building in science fiction.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison
A supercomputer named AM has exterminated all of humanity except five people, whom it keeps alive to torment for eternity. Read by Harlan Ellison himself.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
A lunar colony organizes revolution against Earth. Told through a one-armed technician, a subversive professor, and a sentient computer named Mike who finds the idea of freedom amusing.
Burning Chrome
William Gibson
Ten stories that defined cyberpunk. Johnny Mnemonic, Burning Chrome, and others — the neon-lit sprawl, console cowboys, and the street finding its own uses for things.