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5 Sci-fi books to enjoy during Quarantine days
When you are Quarantined, or the place you live in is put under lockdown, each day feels like an apocalyptic movie. Everything in life is cancelled – offices are closed, all public gathering places from malls, movie theatres to bars are shut down, apart from basic amenities such as pharmacies and groceries. Now, you can’t hang out at pharmacies and grocery stores, can you?
The Coronavirus has been nothing short of a menace, besides taking millions of lives, overburdening the healthcare system and reducing the global economy to its bare bones. There are rising mental health concerns as well. People are finding it difficult to keep themselves engaged, as there is nothing to spend time with. We all love to watch Sci-fi movies when bored, with millions of e-books available out there, picking up a Sci-fi book can be a great time killer.
Here is a list of a few Sci-fi books to enjoy during Quarantine days, and keep your mind engaged away from boredom and negative thoughts:
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley wrote the brave new world in a span of just 45 days, yet it became his most read and popular novel. The book written way back in 1931 depicts a nightmarish version of the future, where everything is so perfect and utopic that in the end the reality feels soulless and too mechanic.
Some of Huxley’s visions in the book are turning out to be eerily accurate in our present-day lives. For instance, Huxley talks about an intoxicating substance in the story that workers of all classes divided into categories of hierarchy beta, gamma and so on take after a hard day’s work. Parallels can be drawn with our Monday to Friday work culture where after a week’s of hard work everybody on Friday prefers to take down a couple of beers, or any alcoholic drink.
The story in the Brave new world revolves around the protagonist Bernard Marx – who always felt like an outsider, or was it because he was not correctly surrogated, in a world where everyone from their childhood onwards are taken away from their parents, to be indoctrinated into the brave new world. Disclaimer: This book can either make you hate your life, or make you determined to change the world for good.
Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adam
Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy was originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC 4 in 1978. It was later adapted into a comedy science fiction series of six books by Douglas Adam – the first two being Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy volume 1 and volume 2 respectively.
The book is filled with humor, and people of all ages can read it. This is the best book to gift to your child if he/she has interests in science fiction stuff. Most importantly, the book answers some of the ultimate philosophical questions we ponder in a witty and funny manner. Once you read both the volume, you will realize that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is the number 42!
Ready Player One (2011) by Ernest Cline
This is a book for all gamers out there who might not have the habit of reading, as a starter. The story is set in the dystopic year of 2045, where the world is addicted to a virtual reality game, and everything in the world has been taken over by the game OASIS and the Corporate that made it.
In Ready Player One, the protagonist is a teenager named Wade Watts, who lives in a slum with his aunt. Watts spends most of his waking hours inside the game OASIS, so much so that he even attends school inside the game. Ready Player One presents a unique dystopic future to the readers wherein the entire future populace is busy searching for the game’s Easter egg that could potentially turn their fortunes overnight.
Recursion (2019) by Blake Crouch
Screenwriter and novelist Blake Crouch takes the readers on an inventive and ambitious journey of time travel, déjà vu and technology in his book Recursion.
Awarded as the best Science-fiction released in the year 2019 by Goodreads, Recursion presents the readers with compelling reasons behind the mysterious phenomena of Déjà vu.
Plague (1947) by Albert Camus
The Plague is one of Albert Camus’s best works and most underrated novels. However, with the Coronavirus in its full pandemic mode in India, this is one of the most relevant books to read right now.
Albert Camus tells the story as the narrator of an unknown disease sweeping the North Algerian town of Oran. Plenty of parallels can be drawn out from the novel, and the current coronavirus situation of how the Plague has been poorly handled by government authorities leading to further spread of disease, death and despair.
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