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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.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

The PassageSeries

series3 books2010

Post-apocalyptic, about vampires.

Start with The Passage →

Fahrenheit 451Series

series2 books1951

completed

Dystopia, about books and reading and totalitarianism.

“Set in a future where books are outlawed and firemen exist to burn them, it follows fireman Guy Montag as doubts about his job push him toward the very literature he's supposed to destroy.”
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Start with The Fireman →

Farnham's FreeholdNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1964

Post-apocalyptic and time travel, about race and racism.

PatternistSeries

series6 books1976

completed

Science fiction, dark in tone, about genetic engineering.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
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Start with Wild Seed →

Where Late the Sweet Birds SangNovel

Kate Wilhelmstandalone novel1976

Post-apocalyptic, about cloning and ecological collapse, set in our world.

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