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The OutposterNovel
Gordon R. Dicksonstandalone novel1972
Science fiction and space opera, tense in tone, about space colonization and survival, set in far future and other star systems.
“If your number came up, you joined the rest of the losers marked for exile from overcrowded Earth.”
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Red RisingSeries
series13 books2014
Science fiction and dystopia, tense and dark in tone, about class conflict and rebellion and revolution, set in far future.
“Pierce Brown's Red Rising follows Darrow, a lowborn 'Red' miner on a colonized Mars who discovers his caste's suffering is a lie sustained by the ruling Gold elite, and infiltrates their ranks to destroy the system from within.”
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The Status CivilizationNovel
Robert Sheckleystandalone novel1960
About prison escape and amnesia.
“On Omega, his only chance to advance himself -- and stay alive -- is to commit an endless series of violent crimes.”
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The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
About aliens.
“Dosadi is rumored to be an experimental planet, and the experimenters are the froglike Gowachin, whose culture is founded upon a strange legal system in which McKie is the only human ever trained.”
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The Hunger GamesUniverse
universe5 books2008
About totalitarianism, set in north america.
“Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”
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includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels
DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
Science fiction and space opera, about political intrigue, set in far future and other star systems.
“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
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includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe