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  • Cover of Fahrenheit 451
    Fahrenheit 451Series

    series · 2 books · 1951

    completed

    Dystopia, about books and reading and totalitarianism, set in near future.

    “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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Fireman →

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  • Cover of Stranger in a Strange Land
    Stranger in a Strange LandNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1961

    First contact, about aliens and faith and religion, set in near future.

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  • Cover of Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
    Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

    series · 9 books · 1962

    completed

    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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Man in the High Castle →

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  • Cover of Saint Leibowitz
    Saint LeibowitzSeries

    series · 6 books · 1955

    completed

    Post-apocalyptic, about faith and religion, set in far future.

    “Together the two novels form a sparse, decades-spanning series about memory, faith, and the cycles of civilization.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with A Canticle for Leibowitz →

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  • Cover of Julian West
    Julian WestSeries

    series · 7 books · 1888

    Science fiction, set in north america.

    “Together the two novels were highly influential on turn-of-the-century utopian and socialist thought.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Looking Backward, 2000-1887 →

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  • Cover of The Andromeda Strain
    The Andromeda StrainSeries

    series · 2 books · 1969

    Tense in tone, about plague and pandemic and survival, set in contemporary.

    “Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Andromeda Strain →

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