Books like The Atheist in the Attic by Samuel R. Delany

Neal Stephenson’s cyberpunk classic follows hacker Hiro as he confronts a deadly digital drug in a slick, future Metaverse full of hackers, virtual reality, and ancient Sumerian intrigue.

In the 29th century, humanity’s vast Hegemony spans dozens of worlds connected by farcaster portals, while the enigmatic Shrike guards the Time Tombs on the lone planet Hyperion. A diverse pilgrimage of chosen individuals must each recount why they were summoned to witness the tombs’ reverse time cycle.

William Gibson’s debut Sprawl novel, *Neuromancer*, blends cyberpunk with a visionary digital future, following a hacker’s final job against a powerful AI. It earned Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards.

Ursula K. Le Guin’s landmark 1969 novel explores a gender‑fluid alien society on the ice‑bound world of Gethen, challenging human assumptions about sex, politics, and humanity through a compelling diplomacy adventure.

In Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic, physicist Shevek leaves his home planet of anarchists to seek truth, challenge entrenched structures, and bridge the divide between his egalitarian society and the wider civilized universe.

In a future where people can "jaunte" a thousand miles with a thought, the wealthy fortify labyrinths and hire radioactive hitmen—while an inarticulate outcast becomes the most dangerous figure in the galaxy.

When a second colossal alien vessel, Rama II, approaches Earth at the start of the 23rd century, a team of humanity’s brightest scientists is sent to investigate, armed with all knowledge of the first Raman ship and ready for discoveries that may reshape our understanding of the cosmos.

In the 31st century, Captain Lorq van Ray leads a diverse crew on a perilous interstellar quest for Illyrion, the galaxy’s most valuable energy source, as they confront a ruthless rival federation and unknown personal dangers.

In Bellona, a strange catastrophe pits fragmented time and reality against its inhabitants, drawing a nameless young protagonist, the Kid, into a city where the marginalized survive beneath two moons.

Robert A. Heinlein’s 1961 Hugo‑winning science fiction classic follows Valentine Michael Smith, a human raised by Martians, as he reshapes Earth’s culture with his alien worldview.

Currently it is fashionable to be devoutly undevout. Religion's most passionate antagonists -- Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and others -- have publishers competing eagerly to market their various denunciations of religion, monotheism, Christianity, and Roman Catholicism. But contemporary antireligious polemics are based not only upon profound conceptual confusions but upon facile simplifications of history or even outright historical ignorance: so contends David Bentley Hart in this bold correction of the distortions. One of the most brilliant scholars of religion of our time, Hart provides a powerful antidote to the New Atheists' misrepresentations of the Christian past, bringing into focus the truth about the most radical revolution in Western history. Hart outlines how Christianity transformed the ancient world in ways we may have forgotten: bringing liberation from fatalism, conferring great dignity on human beings, subverting the cruelest aspects of pagan society, and elevating charity above all virtues. He then argues that what we term the "Age of Reason" was in fact the beginning of the eclipse of reason's authority as a cultural value. Hart closes the book in the present, delineating the ominous consequences of the decline of Christendom in a culture that is built upon its moral and spiritual values. - Jacket flap.

A practical guide for young readers exploring atheism and nonbelief, offering advice on questioning family beliefs, forming personal views on religion and spirituality, and navigating religious celebrations in everyday life.

Interviews with Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations about Science Fiction and the American Literary Canon

An unprecedented, full–length interview with James Baldwin, accompanied by significant excerpts from other conversations that span his life—from Harlem to France—offering insight into his views on race, literature, and his friendships with artists such as Miles Davis, Toni Morrison, and Richard Wright.