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  • Cover of The Hunger Games Universe
    The Hunger GamesUniverse

    universe · 5 books · 2008

    Set in north america.

    “Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”

    from the catalogue
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  • Cover of The Penultimate Truth
    The Penultimate TruthNovel

    Philip K. Dick · standalone novel · 1964

    About surveillance.

    “The people are told that World War III is being fought above them, when in reality the war ended years ago.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of When the Sleeper Wakes
    When the Sleeper WakesNovel

    H. G. Wells · standalone novel · 1899

    Time travel, about political intrigue, set in our world and british isles.

    “Graham, an insomniac Englishman in 1890s London, takes a course of sleep-inducing drugs and falls into a coma that lasts two centuries.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of This Perfect Day
    This Perfect DayNovel

    Ira Levin · standalone novel · 1970

    About identity, set in our world.

    “Levin won a Prometheus Award in 1992 for this novel.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of This Time of Darkness
    This Time of DarknessNovel

    H. M. Hoover · standalone novel · 1980

    “WorldCat: Although both know it is forbidden, Amy and Axel hope that by following the countless ramps leading upward they can escape from their filthy subterranean world.”

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  • Cover of Dayworld
    DayworldSeries

    series · 5 books · 1971

    About identity, set in our world.

    “The novels focus on a man, Jeff Caird, who is a daybreaker: someone who lives more than one day a week.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Dayworld →

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