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  • Cover of The Handmaid's Tale
    The Handmaid's TaleSeries

    series · 3 books · 1985

    About gender and society.

    “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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

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  • Cover of The Shockwave Rider
    The Shockwave RiderNovel

    John Brunner · standalone novel · 1975

    Cyberpunk and post-apocalyptic, about surveillance, set in big city.

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  • Cover of The Running Man
    The Running ManNovel

    Stephen King · standalone novel · 1982

    Thriller & suspense, about survival.

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  • Cover of The Sheep Look Up
    The Sheep Look UpNovel

    John Brunner · standalone novel · 1972

    About ecological collapse, set in big city.

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  • Cover of Darwin
    DarwinSeries

    series · 2 books · 1999

    completed

    Science fiction and hard science fiction, tense in tone, about genetic engineering and plague and pandemic, set in near future and north america.

    “Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio imagines a dormant retrovirus in human DNA activating worldwide, triggering an accelerated leap in human evolution that governments respond to as a plague.”

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    Start with Darwin's Radio →

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  • Cover of The Hunger Games Universe
    The Hunger GamesUniverse

    universe · 5 books · 2008

    About survival, 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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Hunger Games →

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    includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels