In this 1965 novel, a barrier suddenly appears around Millville, Wisconsin, separating it from the outside world. Extraterrestrials (in the form of a patc...Show more
In this 1965 novel, a barrier suddenly appears around Millville, Wisconsin, separating it from the outside world. Extraterrestrials (in the form of a patch of purple flowers) have done this in the hopes they can show humans how to live in harmony and cooperate with one another, but the townspeople react with fear. The story focuses on Brad Carter, a man whose life is not harmonious, who meets the beings and agrees to be their mouthpiece on Earth.
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In this 1965 novel, a barrier suddenly appears around Millville, Wisconsin, separating it from the outside world. Extraterrestrials (in the form of a patc...Show more
In this 1965 novel, a barrier suddenly appears around Millville, Wisconsin, separating it from the outside world. Extraterrestrials (in the form of a patch of purple flowers) have done this in the hopes they can show humans how to live in harmony and cooperate with one another, but the townspeople react with fear. The story focuses on Brad Carter, a man whose life is not harmonious, who meets the beings and agrees to be their mouthpiece on Earth.
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Aaaah, what a delight this book is. I've placed it on this list because it contains one of the most referred-to works concerning alien botany in science f...Show more
Aaaah, what a delight this book is. I've placed it on this list because it contains one of the most referred-to works concerning alien botany in science fiction, the short story "Vaster Than Empires And More Slow," by Ursula K. Le Guin. The story follows a team sent to investigate a newly discovered planet. They find World 4470 to be covered in forests. An empath among them eventually begins to feel a fear emanating from the planet and realizes that all vegetation there is part of a singular consciousness, which is reacting in fear at the explorers after spending its whole life in isolation. Like Le Guin's earlier novel The Word for World Is Forest, this story examines the relationship between humans and their natural environment. Enjoy this and many other short stories by a slew of gifted and renowned sci-fi authors in this fabulous omnibus.
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Aaaah, what a delight this book is. I've placed it on this list because it contains one of the most referred-to works concerning alien botany in science f...Show more
Aaaah, what a delight this book is. I've placed it on this list because it contains one of the most referred-to works concerning alien botany in science fiction, the short story "Vaster Than Empires And More Slow," by Ursula K. Le Guin. The story follows a team sent to investigate a newly discovered planet. They find World 4470 to be covered in forests. An empath among them eventually begins to feel a fear emanating from the planet and realizes that all vegetation there is part of a singular consciousness, which is reacting in fear at the explorers after spending its whole life in isolation. Like Le Guin's earlier novel The Word for World Is Forest, this story examines the relationship between humans and their natural environment. Enjoy this and many other short stories by a slew of gifted and renowned sci-fi authors in this fabulous omnibus.
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Day of the Triffids, originally published in 1952, is perhaps one of the more famous alien botany works. Earth's inhabitants have been mostly blinded by a...Show more
Day of the Triffids, originally published in 1952, is perhaps one of the more famous alien botany works. Earth's inhabitants have been mostly blinded by a queer meteor shower, and this leaves them prey to a towering race of carnivorous, venomous plants who have the capability of independent motion. The story follows biologist and Triffid expert Bill Masen and his attempts to navigate the collapse of society and save himself and his companions from death by evil plant. This book spawned a 1962 movie, several radio dramas, two television series, and a Marvel comic. No list of classic sci-fi is complete without this post-apocalyptic vision of killer plants gone wild.
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Day of the Triffids, originally published in 1952, is perhaps one of the more famous alien botany works. Earth's inhabitants have been mostly blinded by a...Show more
Day of the Triffids, originally published in 1952, is perhaps one of the more famous alien botany works. Earth's inhabitants have been mostly blinded by a queer meteor shower, and this leaves them prey to a towering race of carnivorous, venomous plants who have the capability of independent motion. The story follows biologist and Triffid expert Bill Masen and his attempts to navigate the collapse of society and save himself and his companions from death by evil plant. This book spawned a 1962 movie, several radio dramas, two television series, and a Marvel comic. No list of classic sci-fi is complete without this post-apocalyptic vision of killer plants gone wild.
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Truly weird, Dhalgren is a science fiction classic which received passionately mixed reviews. In a bizarre version of reality where nothing as it seems, a...Show more
Truly weird, Dhalgren is a science fiction classic which received passionately mixed reviews. In a bizarre version of reality where nothing as it seems, a young Native American known only as the Kid hitchhikes into Bellona, where he meets a lady and has a romantic encounter, only to find that she's gone into a field and turned into a tree. This 1975 novel is Delany's masterwork, and we follow the Kid as he navigates the weirdness of Bellona, fist wrapped in knives, trying to exist in a constantly changing world.
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Truly weird, Dhalgren is a science fiction classic which received passionately mixed reviews. In a bizarre version of reality where nothing as it seems, a...Show more
Truly weird, Dhalgren is a science fiction classic which received passionately mixed reviews. In a bizarre version of reality where nothing as it seems, a young Native American known only as the Kid hitchhikes into Bellona, where he meets a lady and has a romantic encounter, only to find that she's gone into a field and turned into a tree. This 1975 novel is Delany's masterwork, and we follow the Kid as he navigates the weirdness of Bellona, fist wrapped in knives, trying to exist in a constantly changing world.
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A sweeping space opera, this story finds the universe attacked by a menace known as the Blight, which turns whole civilizations into mindless servants. Tw...Show more
A sweeping space opera, this story finds the universe attacked by a menace known as the Blight, which turns whole civilizations into mindless servants. Two children who survived a spaceship crash are in possession of The Countermeasure, an almost-mythical potential solution to The Blight's threat. In Vinge's vision, the universe is inhabited by many varied creatures, some of which are creatures called "Skroeriders," a race of plant-like beings with fronds that are used for expression. While the riders have no native memory, they were gifted billions of years ago with wheeled machines that give them locomotion and the capacity for short-term memory. This is the first in Vinge's "Zones of Thought" series, and a Hugo award-winner well worth the read.
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A sweeping space opera, this story finds the universe attacked by a menace known as the Blight, which turns whole civilizations into mindless servants. Tw...Show more
A sweeping space opera, this story finds the universe attacked by a menace known as the Blight, which turns whole civilizations into mindless servants. Two children who survived a spaceship crash are in possession of The Countermeasure, an almost-mythical potential solution to The Blight's threat. In Vinge's vision, the universe is inhabited by many varied creatures, some of which are creatures called "Skroeriders," a race of plant-like beings with fronds that are used for expression. While the riders have no native memory, they were gifted billions of years ago with wheeled machines that give them locomotion and the capacity for short-term memory. This is the first in Vinge's "Zones of Thought" series, and a Hugo award-winner well worth the read.
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In the future, the human race has populated several planets and are divided into three groups. The largest is comprised of those ruled by the powerful gov...Show more
In the future, the human race has populated several planets and are divided into three groups. The largest is comprised of those ruled by the powerful governing body known as Hansa. The Roamers are nomadic traders who live on ships rather than planets, and a group independent from Hansa lives on the planet Theroc, the most prominent human world aside from Earth. Theroc is covered in semi-sentient worldtrees. There, "green priests" are able to communicate with the trees, and, when they touch a "treeling," they can send messages telepathically through space. The first in a series, this book finds humanity inadvertently awakening an ancient foe which threatens civilization for humans and other creatures alike.
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In the future, the human race has populated several planets and are divided into three groups. The largest is comprised of those ruled by the powerful gov...Show more
In the future, the human race has populated several planets and are divided into three groups. The largest is comprised of those ruled by the powerful governing body known as Hansa. The Roamers are nomadic traders who live on ships rather than planets, and a group independent from Hansa lives on the planet Theroc, the most prominent human world aside from Earth. Theroc is covered in semi-sentient worldtrees. There, "green priests" are able to communicate with the trees, and, when they touch a "treeling," they can send messages telepathically through space. The first in a series, this book finds humanity inadvertently awakening an ancient foe which threatens civilization for humans and other creatures alike.
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Foster's 1975 novel Midworld describes a planet entirely covered by a rain forest. The main character, Born, is a human member of a primitive colony of wh...Show more
Foster's 1975 novel Midworld describes a planet entirely covered by a rain forest. The main character, Born, is a human member of a primitive colony of who has lived on Midworld for generations. His people dwell in the massive Home Tree, but are disrupted by the arrival of a business venture from Earth who have no respect for Midworld's ecosystem. Two Earthlings from this venture crash and Born rescues them, only to find they have a callous plan to ruin the stability of the planet's forest for their own gain. Born and other members of his colony decide to fight back.
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Foster's 1975 novel Midworld describes a planet entirely covered by a rain forest. The main character, Born, is a human member of a primitive colony of wh...Show more
Foster's 1975 novel Midworld describes a planet entirely covered by a rain forest. The main character, Born, is a human member of a primitive colony of who has lived on Midworld for generations. His people dwell in the massive Home Tree, but are disrupted by the arrival of a business venture from Earth who have no respect for Midworld's ecosystem. Two Earthlings from this venture crash and Born rescues them, only to find they have a callous plan to ruin the stability of the planet's forest for their own gain. Born and other members of his colony decide to fight back.
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In Le Guin's 1972 novella, humans have arrived to set up a logging colony on a forested world known as Athshe. To achieve their quotas, they enslave the n...Show more
In Le Guin's 1972 novella, humans have arrived to set up a logging colony on a forested world known as Athshe. To achieve their quotas, they enslave the native Athsheans, a semi-primitive race of small, green hunter-gatherers. While normally nonviolent, the Athsheans are so tormented by their treatment at the hands of the Terrans that they rise up and revolt, eventually getting them to leave, but at what cost? Now, they have learned to kill and can never continue unchanged. This novella is in part Le Guin's commentary on the mistreatment of our environment as well as a statement about the horrors of war in response to Vietnam.
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In Le Guin's 1972 novella, humans have arrived to set up a logging colony on a forested world known as Athshe. To achieve their quotas, they enslave the n...Show more
In Le Guin's 1972 novella, humans have arrived to set up a logging colony on a forested world known as Athshe. To achieve their quotas, they enslave the native Athsheans, a semi-primitive race of small, green hunter-gatherers. While normally nonviolent, the Athsheans are so tormented by their treatment at the hands of the Terrans that they rise up and revolt, eventually getting them to leave, but at what cost? Now, they have learned to kill and can never continue unchanged. This novella is in part Le Guin's commentary on the mistreatment of our environment as well as a statement about the horrors of war in response to Vietnam.
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Wells is one of the progenitors of science fiction as we know it, and the famous War of the Worlds is the grandfather of sci-fi botany books. On Earth, ch...Show more
Wells is one of the progenitors of science fiction as we know it, and the famous War of the Worlds is the grandfather of sci-fi botany books. On Earth, chlorophyll makes our plant life appear green. On Mars, the vegetation is responsible for the planet's red appearance. Martians invade Earth bringing many seeds from their planet, but the only one that takes root in Earth's soil is their red weed. The future looks dark for our planet, but eventually one of the most unassuming things on Earth is responsible for saving the day.
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Wells is one of the progenitors of science fiction as we know it, and the famous War of the Worlds is the grandfather of sci-fi botany books. On Earth, ch...Show more
Wells is one of the progenitors of science fiction as we know it, and the famous War of the Worlds is the grandfather of sci-fi botany books. On Earth, chlorophyll makes our plant life appear green. On Mars, the vegetation is responsible for the planet's red appearance. Martians invade Earth bringing many seeds from their planet, but the only one that takes root in Earth's soil is their red weed. The future looks dark for our planet, but eventually one of the most unassuming things on Earth is responsible for saving the day.
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