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  • Cover of Stand on Zanzibar
    Stand on ZanzibarNovel

    John Brunner · standalone novel · 1968

    Dystopia, challenging in tone, about surveillance, set in big city.

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  • Cover of Blood Music
    Blood MusicNovel

    Greg Bear · standalone novel · 1985

    Hard science fiction, about nanotechnology and technological singularity, set in north america.

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  • Cover of The Windup Universe
    The Windup UniverseSeries

    series · 3 books · 2005

    Dystopia, about ecological collapse, set in southeast asia.

    Start with The Calorie Man →

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  • Cover of Brave New World
    Brave New WorldSeries

    series · 8 books · 1932

    Dystopia, about class conflict, set in far future and otherworld.

    “Some editions pair the novel with Huxley's own 1958 nonfiction essay collection, Brave New World Revisited, which reassesses the book's ideas rather than continuing its story.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Brave New World →

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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 Colony
    ColonyNovel

    Ben Bova · standalone novel · 1978

    Dystopia, about space colonization and survival, set in space station.

    “Bova later folded both novels together into the omnibus The Kinsman Saga.”

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