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Ten futures worth living in, escaping from, or thinking about at 2 a.m.

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   Dune — Frank Herbert

   Ecology, empire, and the spice must flow.

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   The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin

   Gender, ice, and the loneliness between worlds.

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   Neuromancer — William Gibson

   The sky above the port, tuned to a dead channel.

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   The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin

   An ambiguous utopia, honestly labelled.

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   Hyperion — Dan Simmons

   Canterbury Tales with a time-travelling murder god.

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   Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell

   Still not an instruction manual.

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   Solaris — Stanisław Lem

   First contact with something that won't explain itself.

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   A Canticle for Leibowitz — Walter M. Miller Jr.

   Monks preserve a shopping list through the apocalypse.

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   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams

   Mostly harmless, entirely essential.

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    Kindred — Octavia E. Butler

    Time travel with real stakes.

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