Philosophical Science Fiction
Philosophical Science Fiction: The genre that invites you to ponder the mysteries of the universe, all while orbiting distant stars. It's a space odyssey with a side of Socrates!
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- Ubik by Philip K. Dick
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
- Conquest by Nina Allan
- Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny
- VALIS by Philip K. Dick
- Anathem by Neal Stephenson
- Isle of the Dead by Roger Zelazny
- Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
- The Female Man by Joanna Russ
- Driftwood by Marie Brennan
- Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
- Past Master by R. A. Lafferty
- The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert
- Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
- The Devil is Dead by R. A. Lafferty
- Factoring Humanity by Robert J. Sawyer
- The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
- Flow My Tears the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
- Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
- Babel 17 by Samuel R. Delany
- High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
- Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
- Passage by Connie Willis
- Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison
- Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
- Shatterday by Harlan Ellison
- Odd John by Olaf Stapledon
- One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith
- The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert
- Fall or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
- Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick
- The Hollow Earth by Rudy Rucker
- The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts
- The Day of Creation by J.G. Ballard
- Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
- The Two of Them by Joanna Russ
- Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny
- This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
- Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K. Dick
- The Secret of Life by Rudy Rucker
- The Dream Master by Roger Zelazny
- City of Truth by James Morrow
- Child of Time by Isaac Asimov
- Triton by Samuel R. Delany
- The Embedding by Ian Watson
- Inside Job by Connie Willis
- Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
- Eye of Cat by Roger Zelazny
- The Squares of the City by John Brunner
- Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel R. Delany
- Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams
- On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch
- Towing Jehovah by James Morrow
- Bellwether by Connie Willis
- Spacetime Donuts by Rudy Rucker
- And Chaos Died by Joanna Russ
- Master of Space and Time by Rudy Rucker
- Slow Birds by Ian Watson
- Humans by Robert J. Sawyer
- Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ
- The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
- The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard
- Spaceland by Rudy Rucker
- Quicksand by John Brunner
- The Eternal Footman by James Morrow
- The Atheist in the Attic by Samuel R. Delany
- Mathematicians in Love by Rudy Rucker
- To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein
- Spider Kiss by Harlan Ellison
- Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard
- Sirius by Olaf Stapledon
- The Reproductive System by John Sladek
- The Starcrossed by Ben Bova
- Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer
- We Who Are About To... by Joanna Russ
- The Broken God by David Zindell
- The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick
- Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
- The Martian Inca by Ian Watson
- Neom by Lavie Tidhar
- This Is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow
- The Stone That Never Came Down by John Brunner
- Slippage by Harlan Ellison
- Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon
- Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
- The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow
- Fourth Mansions by R. A. Lafferty
- The Genocides by Thomas M. Disch
- White Light by Rudy Rucker
- The Continent of Lies by James Morrow
- The Productions of Time by John Brunner