◇ adventurous mood ◇
Ready to explore strange new worlds
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
◆ science fiction
An envoy visits a world where people have no fixed gender, exploring otherness and communication.
"Light is the left hand of darkness, and darkness the right hand of light."
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
◆ literary sci-fi
Students at a mysterious English boarding school slowly discover the nature of their existence.
"What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save."
Solaris
by Stanisław Lem (1961)
◆ science fiction
A sentient ocean creates manifestations of human memory, exploring the limits of alien communication.
"We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. But we don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos."
The Dispossessed
by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)
◆ science fiction
A physicist from an anarchist moon returns to the capitalist planet his ancestors fled, seeking true revolution.
"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution."
Babel-17
by Samuel R. Delany (1966)
◆ science fiction
A poet-spaceship captain must decipher an alien language that rewires thought itself.
"Verbs are words that indicate action; they're among the first things children learn. But nouns are what we build our lives around."
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