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  • Cover of The Lathe of Heaven
    The Lathe of HeavenNovel

    Ursula K. Le Guin · standalone novel · 1971

    Dystopia, about psychic powers.

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

    series · 9 books · 1962

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    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.”

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    Start with The Man in the High Castle →

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  • Cover of High-Rise
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    J. G. Ballard · standalone novel · 1975

    Literary & general and dystopia, dark in tone, about class conflict.

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  • Cover of Ready Player One
    Ready Player OneSeries

    series · 3 books · 2011

    Dystopia, adventurous in tone, about 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.”

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    Start with Ready Player One →

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  • Cover of The Invisible Man
    The Invisible ManSeries

    series · 6 books · 1897

    Set in british isles and 19th century.

    “The Invisible Man is H. G. Wells's 1897 science fiction novel about Griffin, a scientist who works out how to make living tissue invisible and tests the process on himself, only to discover he has no way to reverse it.”

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    Start with Invisible in London →

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  • Cover of Sprawl Trilogy
    Sprawl TrilogySeries

    series · 10 books · 1981

    Dark in tone, about artificial intelligence.

    “Johnny Mnemonic, an early short story set in the same fictional milieu, predates the novels and introduces the courier Molly Millions before her role in the trilogy.”

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    Start with Neuromancer →

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