The Doomed City, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1972; Gollancz, 2017).| www.thepsmiths.com
Imperial China: 900-1800, F.W. Mote (Harvard University Press, 1999).| www.thepsmiths.com
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, C. S. Lewis (1955; HarperOne, 2017).| www.thepsmiths.com
Our universe is fractally strange, and so are our societies. This is a post dedicated to works of non-fiction which, if you close your eyes or change the names, give the same imaginative thrill as the most daring speculative fiction.| www.thepsmiths.com
