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series4 books2011

Science fantasy, dark and tense in tone, about totalitarianism.

series3 books1985

Dystopia and science fiction, set in north america and near future.

“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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The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dystopia and science fiction, set in far future.

“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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includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels

GorSeries

series41 books1966

Sword and sorcery, about slavery and gender and society, set in secondary world.

“The Gor series repeatedly depicts men abducting and physically and sexually brutalizing women, who grow to enjoy their submissive state.”
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Echo CitySeries

series2 books2010

Dark fantasy, about genetic engineering and amnesia, set in secondary world.

“Surrounded by a vast, poisonous desert, Echo City is built upon the graveyard of its own past.”
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When the Sleeper WakesNovel

H. G. Wellsstandalone novel1899

Science fiction and dystopia, set in our world and far future.

“Graham, an insomniac Englishman in 1890s London, takes a course of sleep-inducing drugs and falls into a coma that lasts two centuries.”
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