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series6 books1955

completed

Post-apocalyptic, about faith and religion, set in north america.

“Together the two novels form a sparse, decades-spanning series about memory, faith, and the cycles of civilization.”
from the catalogue

Start with A Canticle for Leibowitz →

Last MenUniverse

universe21 books1930

Challenging and reflective in tone.

“Two billion years of human history, narrated at the speed of a geologist.”
from the catalogue

Start with Star Maker →

includes Last and First Men, Star Maker

Forge of GodSeries

series2 books1987

completed

Dark and tense in tone, about aliens and survival.

“Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Forge of God →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, set in other star systems.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue

Start with Dune →

includes Dune, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe, Dune Prequels, Dune Sequels

2312Novel

Kim Stanley Robinsonstandalone novel2012

Hard science fiction, about genetic engineering and terraforming, set in space.

Riddley WalkerNovel

Russell Hobanstandalone novel1980

Post-apocalyptic, dark in tone, about survival.

“WorldCat: Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road.”
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