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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

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.”
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Start with The Man in the High Castle →

Sprawl TrilogySeries

series10 books1981

Cyberpunk, dark in tone, about artificial intelligence, set in big city.

“Johnny Mnemonic, an early short story set in the same fictional milieu, predates the novels and introduces the courier Molly Millions before her role in the trilogy.”
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Start with Neuromancer →

Forever WarSeries

series10 books1972

Military science fiction, set in far future and space.

Start with Hero →

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

series6 books1968

Cyberpunk, dark in tone, 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? →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

series3 books1985

Dystopia, 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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Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

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