Dune Messiah
Emperor Paul faces jihad fallout as Bene Gesserit and Tleilaxu plot with ghola Duncan to break him.
2,593-word summary · 12 min read
classics + science fiction
18 books tagged both “classics” and “science fiction”.
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Neuromancer
Washed Case hired Armitage run Wintermute cyberspace heist.
2,598-word summary · 12 min read
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.
2,841-word summary · 13 min read
Foundation
Seldon predicts the Empire will fall and seeds Terminus to cut the dark age to a thousand years.
2,706-word summary · 12 min read
The Time Machine
Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.
2,335-word summary · 10 min read
Flowers for Algernon
Charlie Gordon's experimental surgery makes him a genius, then the mouse Algernon starts to slip.
2,074-word summary · 9 min read
A Wrinkle in Time
Meg Murry, Charles Wallace and Calvin tessar past Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which to Camazotz to free Mr Murry from IT.
2,055-word summary · 9 min read
Brave New World
Huxley's Brave New World retold: hatcheries, soma, Bernard and Lenina, John the Savage, and the lighthouse.
2,513-word summary · 11 min read
Ender's Game
Ender Wiggin trains at Battle School to fight the Formics, winning games that turn out to be real.
2,039-word summary · 9 min read
Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 retold: Montag burns books, meets Clarisse, hides books, and follows the river to the readers.
2,336-word summary · 10 min read