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The Handmaid's TaleSeries
series3 books1985
Dystopia, about gender and society and rebellion and revolution.
“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 Shockwave RiderNovel
John Brunnerstandalone novel1975
Dystopia, about surveillance, set in big city.
Space MerchantsSeries
series2 books1953
completed
Dystopia, about class conflict, set in venus & inner planets.
“Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.”
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Start with The Space Merchants →
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.”
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Start with The Man in the High Castle →
The Sheep Look UpNovel
John Brunnerstandalone novel1972
Dystopia, about ecological collapse and plague and pandemic, set in big city.
Final BlackoutNovel
L. Ron Hubbardstandalone novel1948
Dystopia and war & military, about war, set in british isles.