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  • Cover of Make Room! Make Room!
    Make Room! Make Room!Novel

    Harry Harrison · standalone novel · 1966

    About class conflict and ecological collapse, set in our world and north america.

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  • Cover of The Handmaid's Tale
    The Handmaid's TaleSeries

    series · 3 books · 1985

    About gender and society and rebellion and revolution, set in north america.

    “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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  • Cover of The Shockwave Rider
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    John Brunner · standalone novel · 1975

    Cyberpunk and post-apocalyptic, about surveillance, set in north america.

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  • Cover of Level 7
    Level 7Novel

    Mordecai Roshwald · standalone novel · 1959

    Post-apocalyptic, about war, set in underground & caves.

    “X-127 fulfills the role of 'push-button' offensive initiator of his nation's nuclear weapons capacity against an unspecified enemy.”

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    The Running ManNovel

    Stephen King · standalone novel · 1982

    Thriller & suspense, set in north america.

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  • Cover of A Clockwork Orange
    A Clockwork OrangeSeries

    series · 4 books · 1962

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    Challenging in tone, about surveillance, set in our world.

    “After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”

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