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Books like The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin is about gender and identity, loyalty and betrayal, alienation and belonging. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Dispossessed
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Ursula K. Le Guin · Science fiction
The Dispossessed follows Shevek, a physicist from the anarchist moon Anarres, who travels to the wealthy capitalist planet Urras — the world his society broke away from 170 years earlier.
Read the summary → - Foundation
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Isaac Asimov · Science fiction
Foundation opens at the peak of a twelve-thousand-year empire that mathematician Hari Seldon knows is about to collapse.
Read the summary → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
Read the summary → - 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Arthur C. Clarke · Science fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey begins with prehistoric man-apes encountering a featureless black monolith that somehow catalyzes their cognitive leap from prey to hunter.
Read the summary → - A Fire Upon the Deep
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Vernor Vinge · Science fiction
The galaxy in A Fire Upon the Deep is zoned by the speed of thought: near the galactic core, the Slowness, where intelligence itself is limited; farther out, the Unthinking Depths; and further still, the Transcend, where entities of incomprehensible intelligence emerge and occasionally intervene in the affairs of the merely civilized.
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