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DivergentSeries
series10 books2011
Dystopia and science fiction, tense in tone, about identity, set in near future and north america.
Start with The Transfer →
Ready Player OneSeries
series3 books2011
Cyberpunk, 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 →
Unwind DystologySeries
series5 books2007
Dark in tone, about genetic engineering.
“The first novel follows three teens fleeing that fate, and the sequels widen the same dystopia's cast and consequences across a four-book arc plus companion material.”
from the catalogue
Start with Unwind →
The Handmaid's TaleSeries
series3 books1985
Dark in tone, about totalitarianism and gender and society.
“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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Start with The Handmaid's Tale →
TripodsSeries
series4 books1967
completed
Post-apocalyptic and alien invasion, about aliens.
“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
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Start with When the Tripods Came →
FridayNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1982
About genetic engineering and race and racism.
“Artificial humans are widely resented, and much of the story deals with Friday's struggle both against prejudice and to conceal her enhanced attributes from other humans.”
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