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universe5 books2008

Dystopia, dark in tone, set in north america.

“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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Start with The Hunger Games →

includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels

TripodsSeries

series4 books1967

completed

Post-apocalyptic, 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.”
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Start with When the Tripods Came →

The Dosadi ExperimentNovel

Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977

Space opera, about political intrigue and aliens, set in other star systems.

“Dosadi is rumored to be an experimental planet, and the experimenters are the froglike Gowachin, whose culture is founded upon a strange legal system in which McKie is the only human ever trained.”
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Catteni SequenceSeries

series5 books1970

completed

Adventurous in tone, about slavery and aliens, set in other star systems.

“The Catteni series is a tetralogy of science fiction novels by American writer Anne McCaffrey.”
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Start with Freedom's Landing →

Pax / AstraSeries

series2 books1954

completed

Adventurous in tone.

“Star Flight appears to be a later omnibus or reissue rather than a third original novel.”
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Start with The Stars Are Ours! →

Captive UniverseNovel

Harry Harrisonstandalone novel1969

Mysterious in tone, about identity, set in otherworld and underground & caves.

“Chimal is an Aztec farmer's son in an isolated valley cut off from the world by a landslide generations back, split between two villages that live under strict, ancient law enforced by priests.”
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