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Stand on ZanzibarNovel
John Brunnerstandalone novel1968
Dystopia, challenging in tone, about surveillance, set in big city.
Blood MusicNovel
Greg Bearstandalone novel1985
Hard science fiction, about nanotechnology and technological singularity, set in north america.
The Windup UniverseSeries
series3 books2005
Dystopia, dark in tone, about ecological collapse, set in southeast asia.
Start with The Calorie Man →
The Speed of DarkNovel
Elizabeth Moonstandalone novel2002
Emotional in tone, about identity, set in north america.
“From the Penguin Random House website In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past.”
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DarwinSeries
series2 books1999
completed
Hard science fiction, tense in tone, about plague and pandemic, set in north america.
“Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio imagines a dormant retrovirus in human DNA activating worldwide, triggering an accelerated leap in human evolution that governments respond to as a plague.”
from the catalogue
Start with Darwin's Radio →
The Child GardenNovel
Geoff Rymanstandalone novel1989
Dystopia, dark in tone.