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Ideas Before Plot

books where the concept is the point and the characters are load bearing at best

a list by @kepler22b9 books

  1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Douglas Adams

    Shelve
    1
  2. Nineteen Eighty-four

    “the appendix is the thesis”

    George Orwell

    Shelve
    2
  3. Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

    Shelve
    3
  4. Sapiens

    “included with reservations, see my review”

    Yuval Noah Harari

    Shelve
    4
  5. Mistborn

    “the magic system is a formal system. that is the whole appeal”

    Brandon Sanderson

    Shelve
    5
  6. Blindsight

    Peter Watts

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    6
  7. Stories of Your Life and Others

    Ted Chiang

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    7
  8. The Three-Body Problem

    “the ideas are the whole reason to put up with the people.”

    Cixin Liu

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    8
  9. Solaris

    Stanisław Lem

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    9