Samsara

Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons/1989 ⋅ 26th century: the earth is annihilated, people are scattered over more than 200 planets. At the same time, artificial intelligences (AIs) have developed in the world-spanning computer network known as the “Technocore” and have risen to become the secret rulers of the world.

Endymion
The Rise of Endymion

Dan Simmons/1996/Continuation ⋅ On Hyperion, Raul Endymion is given a mission to crosses the portals of time in search of the girl Aenea, the promised savior of the future. But the henchmen of the ruling caste “Pax” want to prevent that. A brilliant epic saga about the future of humanity.

Solaris

Stanislaw Lem/1961 ⋅ Who’s testing whom? When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Scientists speculate that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, its purpose in doing so unknown.

Mutant Message Down Under

Marlo Morgan/1990 ⋅ Homo sapiens – since 60.000 years in peace. The author was invited to tell a silent story about The Real People, who don’t need slavery, totalitarianism, schizophrenia ideology of military, prison, hate speak, dangerous addictions or aggressive sports to feel alive. You will read an Australia vision of dream points,between the universe and our short journey.

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco/1983 ⋅ In 1327. Benedictines in a Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns with his novice Adso of Melk to detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon.

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley/1932 ⋅ The novel opens in the World State city of London in the year 2540, where citizens are engineered through artificial wombs and childhood indoctrination programmers into predeter-mined classes (based on intelligence and labour. It is a society that rests on consumerism, collectivism, mass production techniques and has a rigid caste system.

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt/1951 ⋅ “The ideal subject of totalitarianism is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e. the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e. the standards of thought) no longer exist.“ The mob always will shout for ‘the strong man’, the ‘great leader’. For the mob hates society from which it is excluded.

Ego
The Game of Life

Frank Schirrmacher/2015 ⋅ The journalist specifically points to the information economy, its early origins and the connections between our dependency on technological progress. This opens up the continuation or entry into a manipulated and programmed society for the reader. This book espouses the belief that human beings today are motivated predominately by self-interest and ego.

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins/1976 ⋅ Are we puppets of our genes? According to Richard Dawkins; thesis, which was drafted over 30 years ago and is still provocative today, our genes, passed on from generation to generation, control and direct us in order to maintain themselves. Dawkins describes the molecular gene as the fundamental unit of evolution. A cold but insightful book.

The Circle

Dave Eggers/2013 ⋅ The narrator dives into the psyche of a young achievement-oriented woman and undresses her lucid metamorphosis. Mae’belline Holland, an initially likeable employee of an up-and-coming account management organization (The Circle), loses herself in self-absorbed pinnacles of digital achievement and blossoms into a cold-hearted algorithm of decadent values.

The Every

Dave Eggers/2021 ⋅ The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world’s largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet’s dominant ecommerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous–and, oddly enough, most beloved―monopoly ever known: the Every.

Animal Farm

George Orwell/1945 ⋅ The novel is based on the belief that all revolutions only bring about a shift in the kaleidoscope of power, but that the basic structure of society always remains the same. The satire aims not only at the unique historical fact, but at every revolution in general, whose causes and impulses, whose failure and final reversal Orwell demonstrates the opposite in an animalistic state: “Four legs good, two legs bad.”

Mœbius

Jean Giraud (1938-2012) ⋅ est un auteur français de bande dessinée avec le scénariste Jean Charlier, de la célèbre bande dessinée de western Blueberry, qu’il signe sous le nom de Gir puis sous son vrai nom. Sous le pseudonyme de Mœbius, il est l’auteur et/ou le dessinateur de bandes dessinées de science-fiction. Vous pouvez voir et lire toutes ses œuvres magiques, c’est l’une des personnes les plus merveilleuses de l’art. Tu manques au monde.