5 Works of Speculative Fiction to Read while also Reading "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari
A Brief History of Life, the Universe and Everything... By Péter MARTON ** Join the European Science Fiction group on Facebook for related discussions. ** Sapiens is a very popular and (somewhat less flatteringly) a fashionable book these days. It's really not bad, even if it is at least in part a summary of earlier works and research by others and certainly not unprecedented in its theme and scope. As I was reading it, back in January, I was already thinking about how easy it would be to tag further readings to it from the field of speculative fiction, works that have already explored some of the core ideas discussed in Harari's book, and how that could be turned into a blogpost. This is that post now. So, a brief reading list. I could think of more items to list here, of course, but five is the kind of number that looks good in a click-baiting headline... My aim is to bring up some new and also some lesser known works, so this is not even an "ulti...