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FridayNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1982
Adventurous in tone, about identity and race and racism.
“Artificial humans are widely resented, and much of the story deals with Friday's struggle both against prejudice and to conceal her enhanced attributes from other humans.”
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DarwinSeries
series2 books1999
completed
Hard science fiction, about plague and pandemic.
“Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio imagines a dormant retrovirus in human DNA activating worldwide, triggering an accelerated leap in human evolution that governments respond to as a plague.”
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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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Stranger in a Strange LandNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1961
First contact, about aliens and psychic powers.
Oath of FealtyNovel
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournellestandalone novel1981
Dystopia, about class conflict, set in our world and big city.
“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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Bug Jack BarronNovel
Norman Spinradstandalone novel1969
Cyberpunk, about surveillance.
“In this regard, Spinrad has cited the influence of Beat writers William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac.”
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