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Mordecai Roshwaldstandalone novel1959

Dark in tone, about totalitarianism, set in underground & caves.

“X-127 fulfills the role of 'push-button' offensive initiator of his nation's nuclear weapons capacity against an unspecified enemy.”
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Final BlackoutNovel

L. Ron Hubbardstandalone novel1948

War & military, dark in tone, set in british isles and our world.

American WarNovel

Omar El Akkadstandalone novel2017

Dark in tone, about ecological collapse, set in north america.

Ship BreakerSeries

series3 books2010

Dark in tone, set in north america.

“Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune.”
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The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dark in tone, set in far future and north america.

“Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”
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includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

series9 books1962

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.”
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Start with The Man in the High Castle →

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