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Blade Runner UniverseSeries
series6 books1968
Cyberpunk, set in big city.
“Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.”
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Start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? →
A Clockwork OrangeSeries
series4 books1962
completed
Dystopia, about totalitarianism, set in big city.
“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.”
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Start with A Clockwork Orange →
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 →
The Zap GunNovel
Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1967
Satire, set in north america.
Shadrach in the FurnaceNovel
Robert Silverbergstandalone novel1976
Dystopia, about totalitarianism.
Rogue MoonNovel
Algis Budrysstandalone novel1960
Hard science fiction, tense in tone, about survival.
“A project to transport humans by matter transmission becomes the means to send explorers to the Moon when the US discovers an alien artifact on the dark side, but anyone who enters dies, so a hardened adventurer is given the job.”
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