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The Hunger GamesUniverse
universe5 books2008
Dystopia, tense in tone, 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.”
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Start with The Hunger Games →
includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels
Sun EaterSeries
series36 books2018
Science fiction and space opera, dark in tone, about war, set in far future.
“The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky.”
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Start with Empire of Silence →
Red RisingSeries
series13 books2014
Dystopia, tense in tone, about class conflict.
“Pierce Brown's Red Rising follows Darrow, a lowborn 'Red' miner on a colonized Mars who discovers his caste's suffering is a lie sustained by the ruling Gold elite, and infiltrates their ranks to destroy the system from within.”
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Start with Red Rising →
Death's Head (David Gunn)Series
series3 books2007
Military science fiction, tense in tone, set in space.
“Set in a chillingly realistic far-future world, and featuring a gritty antihero even more frightening than the evil empire he serves as soldier and assassin, Death's Head is sure to be one of the most talked-about novels of the year.”
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Start with Death's Head →
Xan-Sskarn WarSeries
series1 book2010
Military science fiction, tense in tone, about aliens, set in space.
“Under her petite exterior is a spine of solid steel and a disposition to laugh in the face of impending death.”
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Start with Ragnarok →
The Eyes of HeisenbergNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1966
Tense in tone, about genetic engineering and immortality, set in our world.
“Tens of thousands of years in the future, Earth is ruled by the Optimen, a genetically engineered aristocracy that has made itself functionally immortal, while ordinary people, the Folk, live under strict reproductive control.”
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