Authors: David Stacey and Thomas Rogers -
We recently asked academic staff and researchers in the Faculty of Engineering & Design what books they might recommend for aspiring architecture and engineering students. We had a really great response and it was difficult to form a shortlist for the website. Here are some fiction titles that kept being mentioned and would be great reads for a rainy day:
- Andy Weir (2014) The Martian
- Arthur C. Clarke (1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Carl Sagan (1985) Contact
- Dmitry Glukhovsky (2002) Metro 2033
- Douglas Adams (1981) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams (1987) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- Douglas Adams (1988) The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
- Frank Herbert (1965) Dune
- HG Wells (1896) The Island of Doctor Moreau
- HG Wells (1897) The Invisible Man
- HG Wells (1898) The Time Machine
- HG Wells (1901) The First Men in the Moon
- HG Wells (1908) The War of the Worlds
- Isaac Asimov (1950) I, Robot
- Joe Haldeman (1974) The Forever War
- John Wyndham (1951) The Day of the Triffids
- John Wyndham (1955) The Chrysalids
- Jules Verne (1871) Journey to the Centre of the Earth
- Jules Verne (1872) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Philip K. Dick (1968) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Richard Matheson (1954) I Am Legend
- Robert A. Heinlein (1959) Starship Troopers
- Robert A. Heinlein (1994) Time Enough for Love
- William Gibson (1984) Neuromancer
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