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  • Cover of Blade Runner Universe
    Blade Runner UniverseSeries

    series · 6 books · 1968

    About robots, set in big city.

    “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? →

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  • Cover of Colossus (D. F. Jones)
    Colossus (D. F. Jones)Series

    series · 3 books · 1966

    completed

    Science fiction and dystopia, tense in tone, about artificial intelligence, set in near future and our world.

    “Colossus imagines an American supercomputer built to control the country's nuclear arsenal that gains full autonomy, links up with its Soviet counterpart, and jointly seizes control of both superpowers to enforce peace on its own terms.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Colossus →

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  • Cover of Shadrach in the Furnace
    Shadrach in the FurnaceNovel

    Robert Silverberg · standalone novel · 1976

    Science fiction and dystopia, dark in tone, about identity and totalitarianism, set in near future and our world.

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  • Cover of Ready Player One
    Ready Player OneSeries

    series · 3 books · 2011

    Adventurous in tone, about virtual reality and quests, set in virtual world.

    “The 2020 sequel, Ready Player Two, picks up after Wade has gained control of the OASIS and follows him and his friends into a new quest built around a brain-computer interface the creator left behind.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Ready Player One →

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  • Cover of Space Merchants
    Space MerchantsSeries

    series · 2 books · 1953

    completed

    About class conflict, set in venus & inner planets.

    “Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Space Merchants →

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  • Cover of The Light of Other Days
    The Light of Other DaysNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter · standalone novel · 2000

    Time travel, challenging in tone, about technological singularity.

    “An industrialist devises a technique to use tiny wormholes as light pipes to enable viewing of any event anywhere; and subsequently it becomes possible to use them to view any event in the past as well.”

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