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Classics of the 60s

 

 

The High Crusade

Paul Anderson; 1960

An alien ship lands in medieval england. Some humans of that era board the ship and reach the stars.

 

 

Stranger in a strange land

Rober A. Heinlein; 1961

Ein Mensch, auf dem Mars aufgewachsen, kehr zur Erde zurück, wo ihm die menschliche Gesellschaft unbegreiflich ist. Er lernt langsam die Menschheit und ihre Eigenschafte kennen.

 

The man in the high castle

Philip K. Dick; 1962

Alternative-world-novel. Hitler and the Japanese Emperor won the WW2. Unimportant people in west-USA still live their boring lives.. One of the first novels to display this alternative post WW2 world.

 

Dune

Frank Herbert; 1965

Space-operas normally treated planets like some sort of bounty. Dune tells a more realistic story: a planet wont just succumb under the new reign of an alien superpower. People will fight on. Arrakis is a dessert-world, its inhabitants live in a sort of symbiosis with giant sandworms. But the spacefairing community needs spice, an substance found in the dessert and they will fight for it.

 

 

Lord of light

Roger Zelazny; 1967

It first sounds like a fantasy: a world full of gods playing with the mortals. But soon the reader learns that the gods are humans with hightech that lets them look like gods for the inhabitants of the planet.

 

Stand on Zanzibar

John Bruunner; 1968

It was the longes scifi-novel ever published at that time. The story plays in near future in which humans, whould they stand bisides each other, could fill out Zanzibar. One of the first book with content dealing with modern genetics.

 

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