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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 Handmaid's TaleSeries

series3 books1985

Tense in tone, 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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Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

Space MerchantsSeries

series2 books1953

completed

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 →

Fahrenheit 451Series

series2 books1951

completed

About books and reading.

“Set in a future where books are outlawed and firemen exist to burn them, it follows fireman Guy Montag as doubts about his job push him toward the very literature he's supposed to destroy.”
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Start with The Fireman →

The World Jones MadeNovel

Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1956

Post-apocalyptic, tense in tone, about psychic powers.

“The mutant Floyd Jones, who can see into the future, plans to overthrow the system and colonise space.”
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DivergentSeries

series10 books2011

Tense in tone, about identity, set in big city.

Start with The Transfer →

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