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  • Cover of Blade Runner Universe
    Blade Runner UniverseSeries

    series · 6 books · 1968

    About robots.

    “Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? →

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  • Cover of Sprawl Trilogy
    Sprawl TrilogySeries

    series · 10 books · 1981

    About artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

    “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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Neuromancer →

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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

    Science fiction, 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 A Clockwork Orange
    A Clockwork OrangeSeries

    series · 4 books · 1962

    completed

    Dystopia, challenging in tone, about totalitarianism.

    “After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with A Clockwork Orange →

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  • Cover of Budayeen
    BudayeenSeries

    series · 13 books · 1973

    completed

    Set in middle east.

    “Budayeen Nights, published after Effinger's death, gathers his shorter fiction set in the same neon-lit quarter.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The City on the Sand →

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  • Cover of Dogs of War (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
    Dogs of War (Adrian Tchaikovsky)Series

    series · 3 books · 2017

    Science fiction and cyberpunk, set in near future and our world.

    “Dogs of War, Bear Head, and Bee Speaker widen from that first book's battlefield into questions of AI rights, corporate power, and non-human consciousness across a near-future Earth.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Dogs of War →

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