Dune

You too can be the Kwisatz Haderach if you give this story a whirl. People go so bananas over Tolkien and all his faux researchy vibe, but I really think Frank Herbert gives him a run for his money. For ALL HIS MONEY.

This vision is amazing - a far future civilization as remote to us as... the past? You know what they say: the past is a foreign country. And so is this (very weird) future. The appendix itself basically changed my life (well, my intellectual life) (really, though! no joke!).