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Blade Runner UniverseSeries
series6 books1968
Cyberpunk, dark in tone, set in big city.
“Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.”
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Silver Metal LoverSeries
series2 books1981
completed
Romance, about forbidden love, set in our world and big city.
“Jane feels adrift in the upper class of her dystopian society until she meets a robot built for pleasure she suspects is more than the sum of his parts.”
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Start with The Silver Metal Lover →
We Can Build YouNovel
Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1972
Set in our world and north america.
“Written in 1962 as The First in Our Family, it remained unpublished until appearing in serial form as A. Lincoln, Simulacrum in the November 1969 and January 1970 issues of Amazing Stories magazine, re-titled by editor Ted White.”
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The Speed of DarkNovel
Elizabeth Moonstandalone novel2002
About genetic engineering, set in our world and north america.
“From the Penguin Random House website In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past.”
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Stranger in a Strange LandNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1961
First contact, about aliens and faith and religion, set in north america.
Childhood's EndNovel
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1953
First contact, bittersweet in tone, about aliens, set in our world.