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Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

series9 books1962

completed

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 →

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
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Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

The Difference EngineNovel

William Gibson & Bruce Sterlingstandalone novel1990

Steampunk and alternate history, set in british isles and 19th century.

“The computer age arrives a century early with Babbage's perfection of his 'analytical engine'.”
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Eden (Harry Harrison)Series

series5 books1984

completed

Alternate history, about survival and war, set in prehistoric.

“Harry Harrison's Eden trilogy imagines an Earth where the dinosaurs never died out, evolving instead into the Yilane, a technologically advanced reptilian civilization that shares the planet uneasily with early humans.”
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Start with West of Eden →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, set in far future and other star systems.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
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Start with Dune →

includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Dune Sequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe

The Invisible ManSeries

series6 books1897

Set in british isles and 19th century.

“The Invisible Man is H. G. Wells's 1897 science fiction novel about Griffin, a scientist who works out how to make living tissue invisible and tests the process on himself, only to discover he has no way to reverse it.”
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Start with Invisible in London →

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