Philosophical Science Fiction
Philosophical Science Fiction: The genre that invites you to ponder the mysteries of the universe, all while orbiting distant stars. It's a space odyssey with a side of Socrates!
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- Crosstalk by Connie Willis
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
- Conquest by Nina Allan
- Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny
- VALIS by Philip K. Dick
- Isle of the Dead by Roger Zelazny
- Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
- The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert
- Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
- Flow My Tears the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
- Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
- High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
- Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
- Passage by Connie Willis
- Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison
- Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
- Shatterday by Harlan Ellison
- Odd John by Olaf Stapledon
- One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith
- The Straw Men by Michael Marshall Smith
- The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert
- Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick
- The Hollow Earth by Rudy Rucker
- The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts
- The Day of Creation by J.G. Ballard
- Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
- Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny
- This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
- Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K. Dick
- The Secret of Life by Rudy Rucker
- The Dream Master by Roger Zelazny
- Child of Time by Isaac Asimov
- The Embedding by Ian Watson
- Inside Job by Connie Willis
- Eye of Cat by Roger Zelazny
- The Squares of the City by John Brunner
- Bellwether by Connie Willis
- Spacetime Donuts by Rudy Rucker
- Master of Space and Time by Rudy Rucker
- Slow Birds by Ian Watson
- The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
- The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard
- Spaceland by Rudy Rucker
- Welcome to Mars by James Blish
- Quicksand by John Brunner
- Mathematicians in Love by Rudy Rucker
- To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein
- Spider Kiss by Harlan Ellison
- Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard
- Sirius by Olaf Stapledon
- The Starcrossed by Ben Bova
- The Broken God by David Zindell
- The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick
- The Martian Inca by Ian Watson
- Neom by Lavie Tidhar
- The Stone That Never Came Down by John Brunner
- Slippage by Harlan Ellison
- Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
- Mission to the Heart Stars by James Blish
- The Ruins of Isis by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- White Light by Rudy Rucker
- The Productions of Time by John Brunner
- Appliance by J.O. Morgan
- The Multiplex Man by James P. Hogan
- Saucer Wisdom by Rudy Rucker
- Frek and the Elixir by Rudy Rucker
- Players at the Game of People by John Brunner
- The Big Aha by Rudy Rucker
- The Primal Urge by Brian Aldiss
- In Solitary by Garry Kilworth
- Strange Attractors by Jeffrey A. Carver
- Proteus in the Underworld by Charles Sheffield
- The Sex Sphere by Rudy Rucker
- Stress Pattern by Neal Barrett Jr.
- Deathhunter by Ian Watson
- Iceborn by Gregory Benford
- The Evil That Men Do by John Brunner
- The Merchants of Souls by John Barnes
- Hard Questions by Ian Watson
- Moreau's Other Island by Brian Aldiss
- Wyrldmaker by Terry Bisson
- A Plague of Change by L. Warren Douglas
- The Lonely Dead by Michael Marshall Smith
- Jim and the Flims by Rudy Rucker
- Slipping: Stories Essays & Other Writing by Lauren Beukes
- Blood of Angels by Michael Marshall