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Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

series9 books1962

completed

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 →

The Light of Other DaysNovel

Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxterstandalone novel2000

Time travel, challenging in tone, about surveillance and technological singularity.

“An industrialist devises a technique to use tiny wormholes as light pipes to enable viewing of any event anywhere; and subsequently it becomes possible to use them to view any event in the past as well.”
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Ready Player OneSeries

series3 books2011

Cyberpunk, 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 →

Sprawl TrilogySeries

series10 books1981

Cyberpunk, dark in tone, about artificial intelligence, set in big city.

“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 →

Richard ForthrastSeries

series2 books2011

Set in north america and virtual world.

“The sequel Fall; or, Dodge in Hell shifts registers entirely, following Richard's digitally preserved mind after death into an afterlife simulation built from his scanned brain.”
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Start with Reamde →

Mother of StormsNovel

John Barnesstandalone novel1994

Post-apocalyptic, about ecological collapse and survival.

“A strike to destroy an illegal Arctic weapons cache has a catastrophic side effect.”
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