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Make Room! Make Room!Novel
Harry Harrisonstandalone novel1966
Dystopia, about survival and class conflict, set in our world.
Halting StateSeries
series2 books2007
About artificial intelligence and surveillance.
“The plot centres on a bank robbery in a virtual world.”
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Lock InSeries
series3 books2014
Police procedural, mysterious in tone, set in north america.
“John Scalzi's series follows a rookie FBI agent investigating crimes that exploit this new class of disability and technology, across the novels Lock In and Head On plus the interstitial oral history Unlocked.”
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Dream Park UniverseSeries
series6 books1981
Science fiction, set in near future.
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Greg MandelSeries
series5 books1993
Mysterious in tone, about psychic powers, set in our world and british isles.
“Greg Mandel is a former special-forces soldier with a psychic 'gland' implant for reading emotions, working as a private investigator in a near-future Britain recovering from an authoritarian climate-crisis government.”
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HardwiredSeries
series3 books1986
Set in our world.
“Voice of the Whirlwind, published three years later, is a loosely connected follow-up set in the same future, sharing its technological and political backdrop with a different cast of characters.”
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