Solaris

01 Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer

Four women enter a mysterious quarantined zone where nature has gone impossibly wrong -- and where the greatest danger may be what it turns them into.

02 Roadside Picnic Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Aliens visited Earth for a few hours and left -- and the zones around their landing sites are full of incomprehensible artifacts that illegal stalkers risk their lives to retrieve.

03 Dune Frank Herbert

On a desert planet of immense value, a young nobleman navigates prophecy, politics, and the weight of destiny.

04 The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin

A physicist from an anarchist moon travels to the capitalist planet it orbits -- the first person to make that crossing in 170 years -- and is changed by both worlds.

05 A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr

Monks in the post-nuclear American desert preserve the fragments of human knowledge across six hundred years of civilisation's slow return -- and its equally slow drift back toward catastrophe.