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One Second After / John MathersonSeries
series4 books2009
About war, set in small town.
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Directive 51 / DaybreakSeries
series3 books2010
About political intrigue.
“The resulting collapse triggers mass death, a crisis over presidential succession, and mysterious Moon-launched fusion strikes on Washington and Chicago, while a shadowy neofeudalist movement moves into the vacuum.”
from the catalogue
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Farnham's FreeholdNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1964
Time travel, about race and racism.
The Hunger GamesUniverse
universe5 books2008
Dystopia, about totalitarianism, set in far future.
“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
Ship BreakerSeries
series3 books2010
“Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune.”
from the catalogue
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TripodsSeries
series4 books1967
completed
Alien invasion, about aliens, set in our world.
“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
from the catalogue
Start with When the Tripods Came →