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H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse
universe65 books1898
Alien invasion.
“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue
Start with The War of the Worlds →
includes The War of the Worlds
The 5th WaveSeries
series4 books2013
Alien invasion, dark in tone, about aliens.
“Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.”
from the catalogue
Start with The 5th Wave →
Ship BreakerSeries
series3 books2010
Dark in tone.
“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
Start with Ship Breaker →
SurvivalistSeries
series41 books1981
Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, tense in tone, about survival and war, set in near future and north america.
Start with Total War →
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.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Man in the High Castle →
Down to a Sunless SeaNovel
David Grahamstandalone novel1979
Dark in tone.
“The title of the book is taken from a line of the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.”
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