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The Handmaid's TaleSeries
series3 books1985
About gender and society and rebellion and revolution, 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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Start with The Handmaid's Tale →
Shadrach in the FurnaceNovel
Robert Silverbergstandalone novel1976
About identity.
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 →
Blade Runner UniverseSeries
series6 books1968
Cyberpunk, about robots and identity.
“Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.”
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Start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? →
Preferred RiskNovel
Lester del Rey & Frederik Pohlstandalone novel1955
Science fiction and dystopia, tense in tone, about political intrigue and totalitarianism, set in near future and our world.
“An insurance claims adjuster investigates mysterious events in a vault where incurably ill people are stored in cold sleep.”
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The Shockwave RiderNovel
John Brunnerstandalone novel1975
Cyberpunk and post-apocalyptic, set in north america.