The Top Ten Themes and list of books
The Top Ten Themes
There are two books listed for each theme. You will choose one novel for your final paper. All these books are available in most bookstores and libraries, and all of them are available at Amazon.com and are listed as shipping within 24 hours.
What is Human?
Alien Invasion
Future Society--Utopia/Dystopia
Time Travel
First Contact
War and Peace
Childhood and Growing up
Religion/Faith
Gender
Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse
What is Human?
- The Caves of Steel
--Isaac Asimov
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
?--Phillip K. Dick
Alien Invasion
- Footfall
--Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
- The War of the Worlds
--H.G. Wells
Future Society--Utopia/Dystopia
- Ecotopia
--Ernest Callenbach
- The Handmaid’s Tale
--Margaret Atwood
Time Travel
- Kindred
--Octavia Butler
- Slaughterhouse 5--
Kurt Vonnegut
First Contact
- Rendezvous with Rama
--Arthur C. Clarke
- Contact
--Carl Sagan
War and Peace
- The Forever War
--Jack Haldeman
- Starship Troopers
--Robert Heinlein
Childhood and Growing Up
- Ender’s Game
--Orson Scott Card
- Mona Lisa Overdrive
--William Gibson
Religion/Faith
- Stranger in a Strange Land--Robert Heinlein
- Only Begotten Daughter
--James Morrow
Gender
- The Left Hand of Darkness--Ursula LeGuin
- The Female Man
--Joanna Russ
Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse
- The Stand
--Stephen King
- The Postman--
David Brin