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The Handmaid's TaleSeries
series3 books1985
Dark in tone, about totalitarianism and 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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Player PianoNovel
Kurt Vonnegut & Jr.standalone novel1952
Satire, dark in tone, about artificial intelligence.
Oath of FealtyNovel
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournellestandalone novel1981
Set in our world.
“Set in the near future, it involves an arcology, a large inhabited structure, called Todos Santos, which rises above a crime-ridden Los Angeles, California, but has little beyond casual contact with the city.”
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Make Room! Make Room!Novel
Harry Harrisonstandalone novel1966
Dark in tone, about survival and ecological collapse, set in our world.
The Shockwave RiderNovel
John Brunnerstandalone novel1975
Cyberpunk, dark in tone, about surveillance and totalitarianism.
The Hunger GamesUniverse
universe5 books2008
Dark 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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includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels