We rounded up the best of the genre, from classics by George Orwell and Octavia E. Butler to recent bestsellers.

MEN AND MACHINES—Stuart Chase— Macmillan— ($ 2.50). Many an arm-chair philosopher considers modern man a slave of the machine. Not among them is Author Chase. After briefly dissecting the anatomy of ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...