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series3 books1985

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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The Shockwave RiderNovel

John Brunnerstandalone novel1975

Cyberpunk and post-apocalyptic, dark in tone, about totalitarianism.

Ready Player OneSeries

series3 books2011

Adventurous in tone, about virtual reality and quests, set in virtual world.

“The 2020 sequel, Ready Player Two, picks up after Wade has gained control of the OASIS and follows him and his friends into a new quest built around a brain-computer interface the creator left behind.”
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Oath of FealtyNovel

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournellestandalone novel1981

About class conflict, set in our world.

“Set in the near future, it involves an arcology, a large inhabited structure, called Todos Santos, which rises above a crime-ridden Los Angeles, California, but has little beyond casual contact with the city.”
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The Circle (Eggers)Series

series2 books2013

Dark in tone, about totalitarianism.

“Dave Eggers's The Circle follows Mae's rise inside the company as she buys further and further into its ideology, at increasing cost to her own privacy and the people around her.”
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The Thousandth FloorSeries

series3 books2016

About class conflict.

“Katharine McGee's trilogy imagines Manhattan in 2118 as a single thousand-story tower housing every stratum of society, following five teenagers whose ambitions collide as they climb toward, or fall from, its highest floors.”
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