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The Handmaid's TaleSeries
series3 books1985
Tense in tone, about gender and society.
“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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Start with The Handmaid's Tale →
Player PianoNovel
Kurt Vonnegut & Jr.standalone novel1952
About class conflict and artificial intelligence.
Space MerchantsSeries
series2 books1953
completed
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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Start with The Space Merchants →
The Hunger GamesUniverse
universe5 books2008
Tense in tone, about survival, set in far future.
“Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”
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Start with The Hunger Games →
includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels
The Children of MenNovel
P. D. Jamesstandalone novel1992
Post-apocalyptic, tense in tone, set in our world and british isles.
“Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere.”
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The Shockwave RiderNovel
John Brunnerstandalone novel1975
Cyberpunk, tense in tone, about surveillance, set in big city.