Books like Shikasta
Reports and documents from the emissaries of Canopus, a benevolent galactic empire, on the troubled planet Shikasta, which is Earth.
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War with the Newts
A sea captain discovers intelligent newts in a lagoon on an island in the Indian Ocean and starts trading them as labour, and the newts multiply.
2312
In 2312, with humans spread across the solar system, Swan Er Hong, an artist from Mercury, is drawn into her grandmother's unfinished work and a threat to the settlements.
Out of the Silent Planet
Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge philologist on a walking holiday, is drugged and kidnapped by two men who take him by spaceship to Malacandra, where they mean to hand him over to its inhabitants.
Schismatrix
In a solar system split between the Shapers, who remake their bodies with genetics, and the Mechanists, who remake theirs with machines, Abelard Lindsay, a disgraced diplomat, lives through centuries of change.
A Case of Conscience
Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez, a Jesuit biologist on a commission to the planet Lithia, finds an alien race living in perfect reason and goodness without any God, and decides it must be the Devil's work.
The Martian Chronicles
Human colonists on Mars encounter the ghostly remnants of a dead civilisation, and the planet slowly remakes them in its image.
A Wrinkle in Time
A gawky middle-school girl, her genius little brother, and a boy from school are pulled across the universe by three old women to find her missing physicist father in a totalitarian elsewhere.
Moving Mars
Casseia Majumdar, a young student from one of the family clans that run Mars, is drawn into the politics of the colonies as Earth tightens its grip.
The Memoirs of a Survivor
In a British city falling apart after an unnamed collapse, a middle-aged woman is left in charge of a teenage girl, Emily, and discovers another world behind the wall of her flat.
Downbelow Station
As the Company Wars end, Pell Station, orbiting a world inhabited by gentle natives, is swamped with refugees and caught between the Earth Company's fleet and the rising Union.
2001: A Space Odyssey
A mysterious black monolith guides human evolution from ape to astronaut, culminating in a voyage to Jupiter that transforms a man into something beyond human.
Cyteen
On the planet Cyteen, Ariane Emory, the brilliant, ruthless scientist whose labs produce the Union's engineered workers, is murdered, and her colleagues set out to recreate her.