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Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1961

First contact, about aliens and psychic powers, set in north america.

series3 books1985

Dystopia, about totalitarianism and gender and society, set in north america.

“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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EarthseedSeries

series7 books1993

Dystopia and post-apocalyptic, about survival, set in north america.

“The two-book series was left unfinished at Butler's death; a planned third novel, Parable of the Trickster, was never completed.”
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Start with Parable of the Sower →

The Light of Other DaysNovel

Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxterstandalone novel2000

Challenging in tone, about surveillance and technological singularity, set in our world.

“An industrialist devises a technique to use tiny wormholes as light pipes to enable viewing of any event anywhere; and subsequently it becomes possible to use them to view any event in the past as well.”
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Station ElevenNovel

Emily St. John Mandelstandalone novel2014

Post-apocalyptic, about art and artists, set in our world and north america.

“One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear.”
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SparrowSeries

series2 books1996

First contact, emotional in tone, about aliens, set in other star systems.

“The title refers to Gospel of Matthew 10:29–31, which relates that not even a sparrow falls to the earth without God's knowledge thereof.”
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