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series2 books1951

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.”
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Start with The Fireman →

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 →

Eden (Harry Harrison)Series

series5 books1984

completed

About survival and war, set in alternate earth and prehistoric.

“Harry Harrison's Eden trilogy imagines an Earth where the dinosaurs never died out, evolving instead into the Yilane, a technologically advanced reptilian civilization that shares the planet uneasily with early humans.”
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Start with West of Eden →

The Yiddish Policemen's UnionNovel

Michael Chabonstandalone novel2007

Mystery & detective and noir, about murder investigation, set in contemporary.

“Michael Chabon's Hugo- and Nebula-winning noir, told as hardboiled alternate history.”
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Sprawl TrilogySeries

series10 books1981

Cyberpunk, about artificial intelligence, set in near future and big city.

“Johnny Mnemonic, an early short story set in the same fictional milieu, predates the novels and introduces the courier Molly Millions before her role in the trilogy.”
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Start with Neuromancer →

NASA TrilogySeries

series4 books1996

Hard science fiction, tense in tone, about space exploration.

Start with Voyage →

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