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  • Cover of Maze Runner
    Maze RunnerSeries

    series · 11 books · 2009

    Science fiction and dystopia, tense in tone, about survival, set in near future.

    “A 16 year old boy awakens with amnesia in a community of other youths in the center of a maze, and realizes they must cooperate to escape.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Maze Runner →

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  • Cover of Gone
    GoneSeries

    series · 9 books · 2008

    Set in contemporary.

    “Michael Grant's Gone series begins when everyone aged fifteen and older vanishes without warning from a swath of the California coast, trapping the town of Perdido Beach inside an impenetrable barrier the survivors call the FAYZ.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Gone →

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  • Cover of Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
    Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

    series · 9 books · 1962

    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 →

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  • Cover of The Triffids
    The TriffidsSeries

    series · 3 books · 1951

    Set in british isles.

    “Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Day of the Triffids →

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  • Cover of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
    H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

    universe · 65 books · 1898

    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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The War of the Worlds →

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  • Cover of The Fireman
    The FiremanNovel

    Joe Hill · standalone novel · 2016

    About found family.

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