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Space MerchantsSeries

series2 books1953

completed

About class conflict, set in venus & inner planets.

“Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.”
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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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The Handmaid's TaleSeries

series3 books1985

Tense in tone, about gender and society and rebellion and revolution, set in north america.

“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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A Clockwork OrangeSeries

series4 books1962

completed

About surveillance, set in our world and 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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Native TongueSeries

series3 books1984

completed

About gender and society and rebellion and revolution.

“The trilogy follows the spread of Láadan among the oppressed women of the linguist households as an act of quiet resistance against the patriarchal order around them.”
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Stand on ZanzibarNovel

John Brunnerstandalone novel1968

About genetic engineering and surveillance, set in our world and big city.

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