Stranger in a Strange Land

Na sequência deste post, seguem-se as recomendações de João Barreiros extraídas do catálogo da Cinemateca de 1984 nas temáticas O IMPACTO DE NOVAS TECNOLOGIAS, NATUREZA CONTRA O HOMEM e O SISTEMA CONTRA O CIDADÃO.

O IMPACTO DE NOVAS TECNOLOGIAS

a) Elevadores orbitais

Arthur C. Clarke
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)

Charles Sheffield
The Web Between the Worlds (1979)

b) Oniroterapia

Roger Zelazny
Dream Master (1966)

c) Linguagem e Comunicação

Ian Watson
The Embedding (1973)
The Jonah Kit (1975)

d) Astronaves arcas

Brian Aldiss
Non-Stop (1958)

Robert Heinlein
Orphans of the Stars

Harry Harrison
Captive Universe (1969)

e) Esferas Dyson (Uma concha que envolve o Sol construída à escala de um Sistema Solar)

Bob Shaw
Orbitsville (1975)

Kolin Kapp (Ciclo Cageworld)
Search for the Sun (1982)
The Lost World of Cronus (1982)
The Tyrant of Hades (1982)
Star-search (1983)

Frederick Pohl e Jack Williamson (Ciclo Cuckoo)
Farthest Star (1975)
Wall Around a Star (1983)

Michel Jeury
L’Orbe et la Roue (1983)

f) Transmissores de Matéria

Algis Budrys
Rouge Moon (1960)

David Langford
The Space Eater (1982)

Harry Harrison
One Step from Earth (1970)

Larry Niven
A Hole in Space (1974)

John Brunner
Web of Everywhere (1974)

g) Pantropia (adaptação de seres vivos a outros ecossistemas)

James Blish
The Seedling Stars (1952)

Michael Coney
The Jaws that Bite, the Claws that Catch (1975)
The Hero of Downways (1974)

NATUREZA CONTRA O HOMEM

a) Catástrofes naturais

Larry Niven e James Pournelle
Lucifer’s Hammer (1977)

John Brunner
The Crucible of Time (1984)

Michael Coney
Winter’s Children (1974)

John Christopher
The World in Winter (1962)

Richard Cowper
The Twilight of Briareus (1974)

Brian Aldiss
Hothouse (1962)

b) Catástrofes provocadas

Frank Herbert
The White Plague (1983)
The Green Brain (1968)

Fritz Leiber
The Wanderer (1964)

J. G. Ballard
The Drought (1962)

John Brunner
The Sheep Look Up (1972)

Stephen King
The Stand (1981)

O SISTEMA CONTRA O CIDADÃO

a) Consequências da superpopulação

Harry Harrison
Make Room! Make Room! (1966)

John Brunner
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

b) O sistema concentracionário

John Brunner
The Jagged Orbit (1969)
The Shockware Rider (1975)

Thomas Disch
Concentration Camp (1960)
334 (1972)
On Wings of Song (1979)

c) O sistema de castas

Fritz Leiber
A Specter is Haunting Texas (1969)

Larry Niven e Jerry Pournelle
Oath of Fealty (1981)

Roger Zelazny
Lord of Light (1967)

Donald Kingsbury
Courtship Rite (1982)

d) O Estado policial

John Petty
The Last Refuge (1966)

John Brunner
The Stone that Never Came Down

Yevgeni Zamyatin
We (1924)

Larry Niven
A Gift From Earth (1978)

Michael Bishop
Catacomb Yes (1979)
A Little Knowledge (1977)

Ursula K. Le Guin
The New Atlantis

Kate Wilhelm
City of Cain (1974)

George Turner
Beloved Son (1978)
Vaneglory (1981)