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  • Cover of The Light of Other Days
    The Light of Other DaysNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter · standalone novel · 2000

    About surveillance and technological singularity, set in our world and near future.

    “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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  • Cover of October the First Is Too Late
    October the First Is Too LateNovel

    Fred Hoyle · standalone novel · 1966

    Time travel, set in our world and mid 20th century.

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  • Cover of How High We Go in the Dark
    How High We Go in the DarkNovel

    Sequoia Nagamatsu · standalone novel · 2022

    Dystopia, about plague and pandemic, set in our world and near future.

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  • Cover of Mother of Storms
    Mother of StormsNovel

    John Barnes · standalone novel · 1994

    Tense in tone, about ecological collapse, set in our world and near future.

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

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  • Cover of The Jonah Kit
    The Jonah KitNovel

    Ian Watson · standalone novel · 1975

    Reflective in tone, about aliens, set in our world and contemporary.

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  • Cover of Moorcock's Multiverse
    Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse

    universe · 102 books · 1961

    Set in secondary world.

    “The Multiverse is not one world but an endless lattice of them, worlds folded within worlds, each a variation on the last — and through every one of them walks a single conscripted soul.”

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    Start with Elric of Melniboné →

    includes Oswald Bastable, Warrior of Mars, Eternal Champion, The Elric Saga