The Defenders

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

A drug that stops aging has packed several generations into one tiny apartment, where everyone waits for great-grandpa to give up his bed. Vonnegut's comic 1954 take on overpopulation.

Kurt Vonnegut