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HenchNovel
Natalie Zina Walschotsstandalone novel2020
Dark in tone, about class conflict, set in big city.
Dark MatterNovel
Blake Crouchstandalone novel2016
Thriller & suspense, set in our world and parallel universe.
“Jason Dessen, college physics professor, husband and father, is kidnapped and taken to a parallel universe where his counterpart had dedicated his life to inventing a method of traveling between an infinity of parallel universes.”
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The MissingSeries
series10 books2008
Time travel, about coming of age.
“Jonah Skidmore is one of the stolen children, and he, along with his non-adopted sister Katherine, must help return the missing kids to their rightful places in history and fix time before it is destroyed.”
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Start with Found →
WWW TrilogySeries
series3 books2009
About artificial intelligence, set in our world.
Start with Wake →
Southern Reach TrilogySeries
series4 books2014
Weird fiction, eerie in tone, about madness, set in our world.
“In 2013, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights for the series, and a film adaptation of Annihilation was made with Alex Garland as writer-director.”
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Start with Annihilation →
DivergentSeries
series10 books2011
Dystopia, set in near future and big city.
Start with The Transfer →