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Looking for books that have interesting ideas, that make you think? Most of these are science fiction (understandably). In fact, it would probably be fair to simply list all serious science fiction, because that's what scifi is all about - not about death-defying space battles and sinister aliens (this type of fiction is often termed "space opera"), but about new ideas, and their consequences. So, this is no particularly profound list - there are very well-known books ("classics"), and some rather less well-known. Although I've pinpointed particular books, this shouldn't be taken to mean that other books by the same authors aren't worth looking out; often, the authors have written a great many books - I'm not about to list them all!

[As I said before, there's no point in reiterating a lot of description - Amazon does it so much better than me; so I've provided links (the images, or text links where no image is available) to the appropriate pages in Amazon.]

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