18 books like The moon is a harsh mistress

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The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin · 1974 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the planet, Anarres, to challenge… Shares Hugo Award Winner

Accelerando Charles Stross · 1900 · ★ 3.9 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day. Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are… Shares Long Now Manual for Civilization, Artificial Intelligence

Double Star Robert A. Heinlein · 1956 · ★ 3.9 · 159p · ≈ 5h · Moderate One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was — as usual — in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the… Shares Hugo Award Winner, Long Now Manual for Civilization

New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Kazuhiro Kojima · 2007 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares Artificial Intelligence with this book.

Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems Leonard Barolli · 2017 · 877p · ≈ 29h · Moderate Shares Artificial Intelligence with this book.

Comtex

Comtex Comtex · 1986 Shares Artificial Intelligence with this book.

Make Mike Senese · 2017 · 88p · ≈ 2h · Light Shares Artificial Intelligence with this book.

The Shadow of What Was Lost

The Shadow of What Was Lost James Islington · 2014 · ★ 4.1 · 722p · ≈ 24h · Moderate It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs—once thought of almost as gods—were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs' fate only by submitting themselves to the rebellion's Four Tenets. A representation… Shares Imaginary wars and battles

Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein · 1959 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids (referred to as "The Bugs") of Klendathu. It is narrated as a series of flashbacks by Juan Rico, and is one of only a few Heinlein novels set out in this fashion. The novel opens with Rico aboard the corvette Rodger Young, about to embark on a raid against the planet of the… Shares Hugo Award Winner, Long Now Manual for Civilization

The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi · 2009 · ★ 3.8 · 365p · ≈ 12h · Moderate What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man"( Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to… Shares Hugo Award Winner, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Artificial Intelligence

A Desolation Called Peace Arkady Martine · 2021 · ★ 4.5 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Sequel to *A Memory Called Empire*. An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass—still reeling from the recent… Shares Hugo Award Winner, Imaginary wars and battles

Ringworld Larry Niven · 1970 · ★ 3.9 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The ' (1970–2004), by science fiction author Larry Niven, is a part of his Known Space set of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a sun. The series is composed of four standalone science fiction novels, the original award-winning book and its three subsequent sequels: 1970: Ringworld 1980: The Ringworld Engineers 1996: The… Shares Hugo Award Winner, Imaginary wars and battles, Long Now Manual for Civilization

Great sky river Gregory Benford · 1984 · ★ 3.6 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate From back cover Warner paperback August 2004: Nearly 100,000 years after first contact with the machines that dominate the universe, only a few hundred humans survive. Trapped on Snowglade, a barren world near the center of the galaxy, Killeen and his child Toby of the Bishop Tribe are primitive scavengers, homeless and hunted by the ruling "mechs." Then suddenly, a strange cosmic entity --… Shares Artificial Intelligence

Demon Seed Dean Koontz · 1973 · ★ 3.5 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A woman is imprisoned and tortured by her state-of-the-art computer security system--and its perverse desire... Shares Artificial Intelligence

The Tainted Cup

The Tainted Cup Robert Jackson Bennett · 2024 · ★ 4.4 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate HUGO AWARD WINNER • WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from acclaimed author Robert Jackson Bennett“Like an endearing fantasy version of Knives Out . . . A great murder mystery is hard to pull off, but Bennett structures his perfectly.”—T. J. Klune, The New York Times“Combines the best of… Shares Hugo Award Winner

Rage of a Demon King Raymond E. Feist · 1997 · ★ 4.2 · 600p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Midkemia once again lies under the terrible shadow of the Emerald Queen. Her dark forces are ready to launch a devastating invasion against the Kingdom of the Isles. Come the battle's dawn the magician Pug and his life-long warrior friend Tomas discover that something far worse than the Queen's mere sorcery is afoot. For elemental, malevolent forces are being unleashed... forces that threaten to… Shares Imaginary wars and battles

How to Survive a Robot Uprising Daniel H. Wilson · 2005 · ★ 3.0 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Revolutions with this book.

三体 刘慈欣 · 2008 · ★ 3.9 · 417p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Cixin Liu's trilogy-opening novel about first contact with aliens and the clandestine struggle with them over Earth's future, and its scientific progress in particular. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space in an attempt to make contact with aliens—and they succeed. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures… Shares Hugo Award Winner, Imaginary wars and battles

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