Dune series by Frank Herbert, not much comes close.
Dune was released in 1965.
Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?
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#122For me, its The Sorrows of Young Werther. Published in 1779. It is a short read and quite beautifully written.
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#123The Conquest of Bread, Peter Kropotkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conquest_of_Bread It was written in the backdrop of massive industrialisation. Many argue that it predicted both: (1) the problems with capitalism and massive state protection of private property that go along with it, as well as (2) the atrocities that would occur if most production was centralised, as in the USSR. Anarchism, Libertarian Social…
See also Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) by Emma Goldman. It reads like it was written yesterday.
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#124I really like books written by Jules Verne. Those books were really ahead of its time. He was a prolific and best Sci-fi writer. I would like to mention few of his works like 20,000 leagues under the sea, journey to the center of earth and Around the World in Eighty Days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne
Macbeth. I was forced to read it for English class (am non-native speaker) and this is the book I remember.
Jules Verne - Around The World In 80 Days I read a translation of.
Immanuel Kant - An Answer to the Question: "What is Enlightenment?
In the end, there is a lot of old text which I haven't read. Probably too much...
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#125The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (Written in 1909)
Enchiridion of Epictetus
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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#126The Odyssey
The Iliad
Moby-Dick
Anything by Dostoevsky
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#127Both have been mentioned a bunch of times, but I also find that the Tao Te Ching [0] and The Prince [1] both pop into my head, in fragments, from time to time when I'm thinking about the modern world and the humans in it.
Also, if you're wondering where things like genome editing lead us, they lead us to The Island of Dr. Moreau [2] (H.G. Wells, 1896).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_Doctor_Moreau
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#128A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard from 1899.
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#129https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Bestsellers,_American,_1895-1...
From that, I’ve recently decided to start reading The Inside of the Cup by Winston Churchill, and Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg
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#130I would almost considered quoting the great ancient literature a cheat-code but I still do really like the Ecclesiastes.
From the other end of the spectrum, "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" is the book/story that inspired my interest in cryptography. In the end I never worked in infromation-security but I did enjoy it from my 10 years til I left college, and I still do enjoy going for puzzle-hunts with some of my friends :)