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series2 books2012

Hard science fiction, about space exploration, set in mars.

“Using scientific improvisation and dark humor, Watney works to keep himself alive long enough for a rescue to reach him.”
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Start with The Martian →

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
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Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

PatternistSeries

series6 books1976

completed

Dark in tone.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
from the catalogue

Start with Wild Seed →

TripodsSeries

series4 books1967

completed

Post-apocalyptic, about aliens and rebellion and revolution.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
from the catalogue

Start with When the Tripods Came →

DarwinSeries

series2 books1999

completed

Hard science fiction, about plague and pandemic, set in north america.

“Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio imagines a dormant retrovirus in human DNA activating worldwide, triggering an accelerated leap in human evolution that governments respond to as a plague.”
from the catalogue

Start with Darwin's Radio →

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

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