The Big Trip Up Yonder

Humanity lives underground in separate cells, talking through screens and worshipping the Machine that runs everything. Written in 1909, it predicted video calls, online lectures and life inside a network.

E. M. Forster

In a future without disease or old age, a baby can only be born when someone volunteers to die. A short, dark satire from Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1962.

Kurt Vonnegut

After a nuclear war, self-replicating killer robots start building new models that look exactly like people. One of Philip K. Dick's most famous stories and the basis for the film Screamers.

Philip K. Dick

Humanity has hidden underground for eight years while robots fight the nuclear war on the surface. Then a team goes up to see the damage for themselves. A 1953 Philip K. Dick story with a clever twist.

Philip K. Dick