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Thought Experiment Books
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God's Debris: A Thought Experiment (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 8,188 ratings — published 2001
The Time Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 573,799 ratings — published 1895
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 156,961 ratings — published 1974
The Just City (Thessaly, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 8,564 ratings — published 2015
The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)
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avg rating 3.79 — 62,892 ratings — published 2012
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 214,036 ratings — published 2014
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 4,996 ratings — published 2005
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
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avg rating 3.59 — 240,212 ratings — published 1962
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 78,962 ratings — published 1884
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 114,818 ratings — published 1979
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 34,194 ratings — published 1962
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 229,513 ratings — published 1969
Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 23,177 ratings — published 2016
The Last Messiah (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,723 ratings — published 1933
Piranesi (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 523,538 ratings — published 2020
Absolution (Southern Reach, #4)
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avg rating 3.58 — 12,827 ratings — published 2024
There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 39,907 ratings — published 2020
A Perfect Vacuum (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,720 ratings — published 1971
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott (2015-06-11)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
The Poppy Fields (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 43,966 ratings — published 2025
The Measure (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 399,287 ratings — published 2022
Fledgling (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 40,699 ratings — published 2005
Negative Space (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 9,462 ratings — published 2020
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 4,685,919 ratings — published 1945
Xeelee Sequence: the complete series omnibus (Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, Ring, Coalescent, Exultant, Transcendent, Resplendent, Vacuum Diagrams, Xeelee: Endurance)
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avg rating 3.94 — 17 ratings — published
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 510,752 ratings — published 2022
When the Moon Hits Your Eye (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 20,013 ratings — published 2025
The Seep (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 9,545 ratings — published 2020
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 198,298 ratings — published 2021
A Fractured Infinity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 586 ratings — published 2022
The WICKED and the DIVINE #1–4 Combo (Comic)
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avg rating 3.90 — 79 ratings — published
The Library of Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 12,393 ratings — published 1941
The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 46,314 ratings — published 2020
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 132,194 ratings — published 2018
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)
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avg rating 4.22 — 57,485 ratings — published 2020
A Half-Built Garden (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 2,790 ratings — published 2022
Necessity (Thessaly, #3)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,868 ratings — published 2016
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 186,046 ratings — published 2015
The Philosopher Kings (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 3,099 ratings — published 2015
Mr. World and Miss Church-Member: A Twentieth Century Allegory (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Bachelor Pad Economics (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 738 ratings — published 2013
As America Has Done to Israel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 154 ratings — published 2006
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 220,806 ratings — published 1985
A Journey Through Time: The Beginning of Everything (Turkish Edition)
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avg rating 3.85 — 390 ratings — published
Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 210 ratings — published 2014
The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)
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avg rating 4.20 — 33,806 ratings — published 2001
Diaspora (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 11,658 ratings — published 1997
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 145,376 ratings — published 1999
Concerning My Daughter (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 12,667 ratings — published 2017
“Because my life would amount to nothing! It’s just gonna be pleasure without purpose! Okay, so you said that one of the things that would be in my version of a utopian world would be the termination of the gender and racial gap in STEM. You are right. That would be a part of a utopia! However, entering the simulation would not change the gap in real life, so I would merely be living in a whimsical illusion, not a pragmatic and realistic view of how things actually are. Plus, going into the simulation would sort of imply that I surrender to the racial and gender stereotypes. By entering the simulation and not choosing to face my fears of being stereotyped based on race and gender, I am merely showing that I am too scared to live in the world as it truly is and too scared to make a change in the real world.
“You also said that fame for intellectual discoveries was part of my version of a utopia, and that is also true, but if I made all of my discoveries in the fantasy world, then my goal to be well-known in the world for intellectual discoveries would technically not be accomplished, because no one in real life would know my name. Some programmed beings would, but I would just be another human being in the real world. I wouldn’t be contributing to anything in real life!”
Dad nodded in interest. “You’d rather be helpful than happy.”
“Absolutely!”
― The Reformation
“You also said that fame for intellectual discoveries was part of my version of a utopia, and that is also true, but if I made all of my discoveries in the fantasy world, then my goal to be well-known in the world for intellectual discoveries would technically not be accomplished, because no one in real life would know my name. Some programmed beings would, but I would just be another human being in the real world. I wouldn’t be contributing to anything in real life!”
Dad nodded in interest. “You’d rather be helpful than happy.”
“Absolutely!”
― The Reformation
“Suppose some organism, let’s just say a chicken, hatched from an abandoned nest; there were no other eggs in that nest, so it couldn’t see its fellow chicken siblings, and since the nest was abandoned, the chicken couldn’t see its mother. There were no other chickens surrounding it. There were also no reflective surfaces in the area, so the chicken couldn’t see what it looked like and a few moments later, it became blind, so it could not look down at its feet or see its own feathers. Because of these factors, the chicken didn’t know that it was a chicken. Is it possible for the chicken to realize that it is a chicken? If so, what circumstances could lead the chicken to realize that it is a chicken, or is akin to any groups of chickens it may encounter?”
― The Reformation
― The Reformation
