Best Science Fiction Books To Read

By Annabelle Holman


Reading is an art yet to be chained. Humans, even in the presence of computers and other devices, still use it. The most intriguing subject being science. Below are the best science fiction books that have made this art a long lasting trait of this race and have been outstanding all along in the market.

Top on the list is Ringworld, a Larry Niven works. In this book, luck is a genetic trait that is controllable. This storyline begins on earth and ends up in the world of the puppeteers. These creatures are indestructible by matter and humans have to devise other ways to beat them. The book looks into the aspect of war between planets and the chances the human race has to survive.

The Demolished Man is a piece that could get you going. Taking place in the future, the book analyses the nature in which governments and law could shift from a democratic state to another system. In this book the psychological synchrony in the way people think and act is more like the current internet platform. The peepers who are the same people who possess this abilities, are capable of curbing cases arising due to premeditated murder for a record seventy years.

Thirdly, Gateway by Frederik Pohl will intrigue you. Released in 2010, this book looks into the greed that humans have for riches. Stray ships abandoned by aliens attract a number who board them. With programmed destinations, these locomotives take them to the Heechee planet. Many die in the process and some who got lucky not to be disfigured beyond recognition become the new Bill Gates, just like that.

Done by John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, houses two characters. House and Hogan. Hogan is in the forefront of a conglomerate that is poised to take over a country in Africa. The company he leads is called general technics and also deals with genetic engineering products. Hogan on other hand is his spy and takes a geek personality to conceal his true intention. In the end he dies but after successfully getting the solution to genetic engineering.

Timescape, a proud piece by Gregory Benford is an award winning book. This book involves the idea of teleporting to the future and making the necessary measures to correct a current mistake from causing a calamity in future. Gregory in this book involves drama and science to high level that will keep you going and going. A group of scientists from 1998 and 1962 are all that stood at the center of the future of the human race.

Alfred Beester wrote the book Tiger! Tiger! In the 1950s. Little did he know a reprint in 2011 under, The Stars is my Destination, was going to catapult the content value if this piece to huge heights. In the original piece, he assesses a character who uses teleporting as the perfect tool to evade arrest in time of problem. This shakes the world and in turn poises danger to everyone.

Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson will shock you in how the US will end up being in fictional world as portrayed in this book. Who could ever have imagined the Pizza delivery guy could make things turn around for the worst more so affect the whole nation. He comes up with a virus that shapes the US as a cybercrime infested nation.




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