Reading path
The Prophets
They imagined the machinery before we built it: surveillance states, designer drugs, automated minds, climate collapse. From Mary Shelley's first electrified corpse to the cyberpunks jacking into the matrix, this is the literature that took the future seriously while the future was still being decided. Some writers land on chastened hope, others on cold prophecy. The predictions keep arriving on schedule.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. FrankensteinMary Shelley, 1818
- 2. The Time MachineH.G. Wells, 1895
- 3. The War of the WorldsH.G. Wells, 1898
- 4. The Iron HeelJack London, 1908
- 5. The First Men In The MoonH.G. Wells, 1901
- 6. R.U.R.Karel Čapek, 1920
- 7. WeYevgeny Zamyatin, 1924
- 8. Brave New WorldAldous Huxley, 1932
- 9. Star MakerOlaf Stapledon, 1937
- 10. Animal FarmGeorge Orwell, 1945
- 11. 1984George Orwell, 1949
- 12. RunaroundIsaac Asimov, 1942
- 13. The Martian ChroniclesRay Bradbury, 1950
- 14. FoundationIsaac Asimov, 1951
- 15. Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury, 1953
- 16. Childhood's EndArthur C. Clarke, 1953
- 17. A Canticle for LeibowitzWalter M. Miller Jr., 1959
- 18. SolarisStanisław Lem, 1961
- 19. A Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess, 1962
- 20. DuneFrank Herbert, 1965
- 21. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Philip K. Dick, 1968
- 22. The Left Hand of DarknessUrsula K. Le Guin, 1969
- 23. Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut, 1969
- 24. The Ones Who Walk Away from OmelasUrsula K. Le Guin, 1973
- 25. The DispossessedUrsula K. Le Guin, 1974
- 26. NeuromancerWilliam Gibson, 1984
- 27. The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood, 1985
- 28. The War of the WorldsH.G. Wells, 1898
- 29. From the Earth to the MoonJules Verne, 1865