Cheng Xin and the end of the universe; the trilogy goes to the largest scale in fiction.
Deckard, the replicants and the mood organ; the book behind Blade Runner.
Case, Molly and the matrix; Gibson invented cyberspace in 1984.
A physicist between an anarchist moon and its capitalist planet; Le Guin's ambiguous utopia.
Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for the Mafia and fights a virus in the Metaverse; the word comes from here.
A world of periodic apocalypses and the people who can quell earthquakes; three consecutive Hugos.
Wallfacers, the dark forest theory and the Trisolaran fleet.
A travelling Shakespeare troupe twenty years after a flu killed the world.
Soldiers return from each battle to an Earth centuries older; Haldeman's Vietnam in space.
Mobile infantry against the Bugs and a lecture on citizenship; Verhoeven turned it inside out.
The three laws of robotics in nine stories; Susan Calvin and the machines.
The Axis won and America is divided; Dick's alternate history.
Psychohistory predicts the fall of the Galactic Empire and Hari Seldon plans for it; Asimov's trilogy begins.
A boy trains for a war against the buggers in a battle room; the ending is the point.
An envoy on a planet where people have no fixed sex; Le Guin's thought experiment.
A human raised by Martians comes to Earth and starts a church; grok.
Earth is demolished for a bypass; 42 and a towel.
Kathy, Ruth and Tommy at Hailsham and what they were made for.
District 13, the propaganda war and the Capitol; the trilogy ends darker than the films.
Six nested stories from 1849 to a post-apocalyptic Hawaii; Mitchell's puzzle box.
The Quarter Quell sends the victors back in.
An artificial friend watches over a sick girl; Ishiguro after the Nobel.
Katniss volunteers for her sister and enters the arena; the book before the films.
Ice-nine, a fake religion and the end of the world in a Caribbean republic; Vonnegut at his funniest.
Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time between Dresden and Tralfamadore; so it goes.
The Bene Gesserit against the Honored Matres, fifteen centuries after the God Emperor.
Alex and his droogs in Nadsat slang, and the Ludovico cure; Burgess's 1962 novel, not the film.
Zamyatin's 1921 glass city of numbers; the book Orwell and Huxley both borrowed from.
Twelve years on, the emperor Paul is trapped by his own jihad and his own prophecy.
Martians land in Surrey with heat rays; the first alien invasion.
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