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  • Cover of The Light of Other Days
    The Light of Other DaysNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter · standalone novel · 2000

    Time travel, tense in tone, about surveillance.

    “An industrialist devises a technique to use tiny wormholes as light pipes to enable viewing of any event anywhere; and subsequently it becomes possible to use them to view any event in the past as well.”

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  • Cover of Blood Music
    Blood MusicNovel

    Greg Bear · standalone novel · 1985

    Dark in tone, about genetic engineering and nanotechnology, set in north america.

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  • Cover of Richard Forthrast
    Richard ForthrastSeries

    series · 2 books · 2011

    About virtual reality, set in north america and virtual world.

    “The sequel Fall; or, Dodge in Hell shifts registers entirely, following Richard's digitally preserved mind after death into an afterlife simulation built from his scanned brain.”

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  • Cover of Childhood's End
    Childhood's EndNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1953

    First contact and alien invasion, bittersweet in tone, about aliens.

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  • Cover of Stranger in a Strange Land
    Stranger in a Strange LandNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1961

    First contact, about aliens and faith and religion, set in north america.

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  • Cover of A Clockwork Orange
    A Clockwork OrangeSeries

    series · 4 books · 1962

    completed

    Dystopia, dark in tone, about totalitarianism.

    “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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