Read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

An envoy on a planet where people have no fixed sex; Le Guin's thought experiment.

A physicist between an anarchist moon and its capitalist planet; Le Guin's ambiguous utopia.

The Library of Babel, the Garden of Forking Paths and Pierre Menard; Borges in seventeen stories.

A successful judge falls ill and works out, over three months of dying, that he lived the whole thing wrong.

A universe of hexagonal galleries holding every possible 410-page book, nearly all of them gibberish.

The three laws of robotics in nine stories; Susan Calvin and the machines.

Earth colonises Mars in linked stories; Bradbury's melancholy frontier.

Ged learns the true names of things and hunts his own shadow; the Earthsea cycle begins.