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FridayNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1982
Adventurous in tone, about identity and race and racism.
“Artificial humans are widely resented, and much of the story deals with Friday's struggle both against prejudice and to conceal her enhanced attributes from other humans.”
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The Handmaid's TaleSeries
series3 books1985
Dystopia, dark in tone, about totalitarianism and gender and society.
“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
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DarwinSeries
series2 books1999
completed
Hard science fiction, about plague and pandemic.
“Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio imagines a dormant retrovirus in human DNA activating worldwide, triggering an accelerated leap in human evolution that governments respond to as a plague.”
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Bug Jack BarronNovel
Norman Spinradstandalone novel1969
Cyberpunk, about surveillance.
“In this regard, Spinrad has cited the influence of Beat writers William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac.”
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The World Jones MadeNovel
Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1956
Dystopia and post-apocalyptic, dark in tone, about psychic powers.
“The mutant Floyd Jones, who can see into the future, plans to overthrow the system and colonise space.”
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Unwind DystologySeries
series5 books2007
Dystopia, dark in tone.
“The first novel follows three teens fleeing that fate, and the sequels widen the same dystopia's cast and consequences across a four-book arc plus companion material.”
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