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Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

series9 books1962

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.”
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Start with The Man in the High Castle →

Southern Reach TrilogySeries

series4 books2014

Weird fiction and horror, about madness.

“In 2013, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights for the series, and a film adaptation of Annihilation was made with Alex Garland as writer-director.”
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Start with Annihilation →

The Invisible ManSeries

series6 books1897

Set in british isles and 19th century.

“The Invisible Man is H. G. Wells's 1897 science fiction novel about Griffin, a scientist who works out how to make living tissue invisible and tests the process on himself, only to discover he has no way to reverse it.”
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Start with Invisible in London →

FledglingNovel

Octavia E. Butlerstandalone novel2005

Paranormal, about vampires and race and racism, set in north america.

FrankensteinUniverse

universe128 books1818

Horror.

“Light a candle against the November dark and consider what a single spark, rightly applied to dead matter, might wake.”
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Start with Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus →

includes Frankenstein's Children, The Frankenstein Journals, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, The Frankenstein Saga, The Quest of Frankenstein, Frankenstein (Lou Mougin), Jean-Claude Carrière's Frankenstein

The TriffidsSeries

series3 books1951

Post-apocalyptic, about survival, set in british isles.

“Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.”
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Start with The Day of the Triffids →

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