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Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Dr Felix Hoenikker - a father of the atomic bomb - has another creation. Far more dangerous than that which levelled Hiroshima- ice-nine, a chemical that could freeze the world's oceans solid. The search for Hoenikker leads first to his three children, each in possession of the chemical, and then to the ...Show more
Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
In "Consciousness Explained", Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the human brain. Daniel C. Dennett's now-classic book blends philosophy, psychology and neuroscience - with the aid of numerous examples and thought-experiments - to explore how co ...Show more
Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Announced in a thunderclap out of another day's tedium, hapless New Yorker Tom Carmody learns that he is the winner of the Intergalactic Sweepstake. Accepting with a shrug, he is whipped across the universe to collect his prize. The catch? There's no way home. Enlisting the help of galactic bureaucrats, ...Show more
How to Solve It by G. Polya
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Category: Mathematics | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
An introduction to heuristics, the study of the methods and rules of discovery, invention and human problem-solving. First published in 1945, it provides a modern contribution to a subject that has had a considerable revival and is emphasized in GCSE mathematics and science.
One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov is on the precipice of a major discovery - a Nobel Prize-worthy break though. Yet, home alone in his Leningrad apartment, his work is beginning to be stymied. Strange and improbable distractions are mounting around him - and he is not alone. Across the city, his scientific ...Show more
Robot by Adam Wisniewski-Snerg
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Is BER-64 a human or a machine? As he navigates the corridors and locked rooms of a strange bunker, he must solve the mysteries of murderous doppelgangers, a slow-motion city on the verge of destruction, and ultimately, the all-powerful Mechanism itself... Considered to be one of the most important and ...Show more
Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home by James Tiptree Jr.
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
'Unquestionably one of the brightest-burning talents in the constellation of science fiction' - The New York Times Written under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., the pioneering and outlandish tales of Alice B. Sheldon are some of the greatest science fiction short stories of the twentieth century, telli ...Show more
The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
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Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
In the past century many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by our upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. Steven Pinker's profound and essential book shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature ...Show more
The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
In the deep glens of Massachusetts, in the wild hills of Vermont, and in Australia's sandy wastes, unfathomable things lurk. Things that shine with an unnatural light, that speak and buzz strangely in the night, that prowl in the mind. Things not of our Earth. Widely considered to be the most significan ...Show more
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century. His ornate, phantasmagorical writing probes the furthest reaches of the universe while remaining deeply and particularly human. The Cyberiad, one of Lem's most beloved works, follows the ...Show more
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
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Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a dir ...Show more
The Hair Carpet Weavers by Andreas Eschbach
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach's mysterious, poignant space opera explores the absurdity of work and of life itself. 'A novel of ideas that evokes complex emotions th ...Show more