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Homer CrawfordSeries
series5 books1972
completed
Set in near future.
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The Old DriftNovel
Namwali Serpellstandalone novel2019
Historical fiction and sagas & family.
“Set in Northern Rhodesia/Zambia, it is Serpell's debut novel and follows the lives of three interwoven families in three generations.”
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The Years of Rice and SaltNovel
Kim Stanley Robinsonstandalone novel2002
Historical fiction, about reincarnation and plague and pandemic, set in our world.
“What if the Black Death had killed nearly everyone in Europe instead of a third of it?”
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Gravity's RainbowNovel
Thomas Pynchonstandalone novel1973
Literary & general and postmodern, about war, set in europe.
“The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military.”
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Black No MoreNovel
George S. Schuylerstandalone novel1931
Satire, about genetic engineering and class conflict, set in north america.
“In the novel, Schuyler targets both the Ku Klux Klan and NAACP in condemning the ways in which race functions as both an obsession and a commodity in early twentieth-century America.”
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Odd JohnNovel
Olaf Stapledonstandalone novel1935
Reflective in tone, about genetic engineering, set in our world.