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Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

series9 books1962

completed

Science fiction, set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
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Space MerchantsSeries

series2 books1953

completed

Dark in tone, about class conflict, set in venus & inner planets.

“Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.”
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Nineteen Eighty-FourSeries

series4 books1949

Dystopia.

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The Handmaid's TaleSeries

series3 books1985

Dark in tone, about gender and society and rebellion and revolution.

“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
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DivergentSeries

series10 books2011

About identity, set in big city.

Start with The Transfer →

The Lathe of HeavenNovel

Ursula K. Le Guinstandalone novel1971

Eerie in tone, about psychic powers, set in big city.

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