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Cat's CradleNovel
Kurt Vonnegut & Jr.standalone novel1963
Satire and postmodern, about nanotechnology, set in our world.
The High CrusadeNovel
Poul Andersonstandalone novel1960
Alternate history, adventurous in tone, about aliens, set in medieval.
The Kraken WakesNovel
John Wyndhamstandalone novel1953
Alien invasion, tense in tone, about aliens, set in our world.
“Earth's life is disrupted by the attacks of extraterrestrials whose war machines, emerging from the depths of the oceans, seem indestructible.”
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Oxford Time TravelSeries
series6 books1982
Time travel, tense in tone, about survival, set in europe.
“Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel novels are set at a near-future Oxford University where historians travel into the past as observers, constrained by a version of history that resists any change large enough to alter real events.”
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The Iron DreamNovel
Norman Spinradstandalone novel1972
Alternate history and satire, about totalitarianism, set in alternate earth.
The Mouse That RoaredSeries
series6 books1955
completed
Satire.
“The 1955 novel uses Fenwick's mismatched ambitions to poke fun at Cold War politics and the nuclear arms race, and Wibberley kept the joke going across four more novels into the 1970s.”
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