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  • Cover of We Can Build You
    We Can Build YouNovel

    Philip K. Dick · standalone novel · 1972

    Set in north america.

    “Written in 1962 as The First in Our Family, it remained unpublished until appearing in serial form as A. Lincoln, Simulacrum in the November 1969 and January 1970 issues of Amazing Stories magazine, re-titled by editor Ted White.”

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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 Up the Line
    Up the LineNovel

    Robert Silverberg · standalone novel · 1969

    Time travel.

    “The plot revolves mainly around the paradoxes brought about by time travel and is considered an example of the more sexually-permissive era of late 1960s American science-fiction, a reflection of the counterculture of its day.”

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  • Cover of Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
    Where Late the Sweet Birds SangNovel

    Kate Wilhelm · standalone novel · 1976

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

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  • Cover of Tik-Tok
    Tik-TokNovel

    John Sladek · standalone novel · 1983

    Dark in tone, set in north america.

    “Tik-Tok was one of the finest domestic robots ever made, but his asimov circuits were defective.”

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  • Cover of Childhood's End
    Childhood's EndNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1953

    First contact, bittersweet in tone, about aliens and technological singularity.

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