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Hint
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Author
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Answer
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Residents of Airstrip One are under constant surveillance by an unseen leader known as Big Brother
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George Orwell
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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In the 19th century, Martians invade Earth in huge metal tripods
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H.G. Wells
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The War of the Worlds
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A hacker is hired by a mysterious employer named Armitage to steal a security code from the most impregnable databank in the solar system
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William Gibson
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Neuromancer
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In the future, humans are mass-produced in laboratories and assigned a social class before they are even born
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Aldous Huxley
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Brave New World
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A Victorian explorer travels to the far future and finds that humans have evolved into two different species, named the Eloi and the Morlocks
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H.G. Wells
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The Time Machine
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A marine biologist is captured by an advanced submarine named the Nautilus, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo
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Jules Verne
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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A soldier progresses through the ranks of the army during a war between humans and aliens known as 'Bugs'
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Robert A. Heinlein
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Starship Troopers
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Factions of an interstellar empire fight over control of the planet Arrakis, the only source of the valuable spice melange
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Frank Herbert
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Dune
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In post-apocalyptic San Francisco, a bounty hunter is tasked with killing six escaped human-like androids
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Philip K. Dick
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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In order to avoid overconsumption of resources, people are killed once they reach their 'Lastday' at the age of 21
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William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
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Logan's Run
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After Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass, the last surviving man goes on intergalactic adventures in his dressing gown
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Douglas Adams
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Two astronauts en route to Saturn are terrorised by their spaceship's disobedient computer
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Arthur C. Clarke
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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After most of the population is blinded by a meteor shower, an aggressive species of carnivorous plant begins to take over the world
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John Wyndham
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The Day of the Triffids
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A human man is sent to study the inhabitants of the planet Gethen, and finds they have an incredibly different understanding of gender and sexuality
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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Society breaks down when a highly virulent, genetically modified strain of influenza is accidentally released
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Stephen King
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The Stand
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A scientist named Griffin modifies his own body so he neither reflects nor absorbs light
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H.G. Wells
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The Invisible Man
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A young janitor with a low IQ is transformed into a genius, thanks to an experimental brain surgery
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Daniel Keyes
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Flowers for Algernon
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A scientist on a remote Pacific island creates monstrous animal hybrids called 'Beast Folk'
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H.G. Wells
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
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An amusement park featuring genetically recreated dinosaurs goes horribly wrong before it even opens
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Michael Crichton
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Jurassic Park
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A young Swiss student constructs a human-like creature from parts of corpses, then brings it to life
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Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
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Farenheit 451 or the Foundation would be much more worthwile additions.