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series8 books1932

Dystopia, about class conflict, set in far future.

“Some editions pair the novel with Huxley's own 1958 nonfiction essay collection, Brave New World Revisited, which reassesses the book's ideas rather than continuing its story.”
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FlatlandSeries

series2 books1884

Science fiction, set in otherworld.

“Ian Stewart's 2001 Flatterland follows a descendant of that narrator on a tour of stranger geometries, from curved and multidimensional space to relativity, as a knowing homage to Abbott's original.”
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Venus Plus XNovel

Theodore Sturgeonstandalone novel1960

Challenging in tone, about gender and society and identity, set in mid 20th century.

“Charlie Johns wakes in a featureless silver room with no memory of how he got there and a watch that's inexplicably running backward.”
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Captive UniverseNovel

Harry Harrisonstandalone novel1969

About survival and identity, set in far future 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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The House of the ScorpionSeries

series2 books2002

Dystopia, about cloning and coming of age.

“Matt is a clone of El Patron, the ancient drug lord who rules Opium, a narco-state carved out of the border between the U.S. and a future Mexico, created and raised solely to supply spare organs for the man he was copied from.”
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A Tale of Time CityNovel

Diana Wynne Jonesstandalone novel1987

Time travel, about quests and coming of age, set in early 20th century.

“In 1939 an eleven-year-old London girl is kidnapped to Time City, a place existing outside the stream of time and manipulating the history of humanity, where she finds the inhabitants facing their worst hour of crisis.”
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