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  • Cover of The Light of Other Days
    The Light of Other DaysNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter · standalone novel · 2000

    Time travel, challenging in tone, about surveillance.

    “An industrialist devises a technique to use tiny wormholes as light pipes to enable viewing of any event anywhere; and subsequently it becomes possible to use them to view any event in the past as well.”

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  • Cover of Otherland
    OtherlandSeries

    series · 6 books · 1996

    Set in virtual world.

    “Otherland is a science fiction tetralogy by American writer Tad Williams, published between 1996 and 2001.”

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    Start with City of Golden Shadow →

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  • Cover of Halting State
    Halting StateSeries

    series · 2 books · 2007

    About surveillance.

    “The plot centres on a bank robbery in a virtual world.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Halting State →

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  • Cover of The Jackpot Trilogy
    The Jackpot TrilogySeries

    series · 2 books · 2014

    About surveillance, set in north america.

    “Gibson's 2020 book Agency is set in the same world.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Peripheral →

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  • Cover of Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
    Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

    series · 9 books · 1962

    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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    Start with The Man in the High Castle →

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  • Cover of Greg Mandel
    Greg MandelSeries

    series · 5 books · 1993

    Mystery & detective, about psychic powers, set in british isles.

    “Greg Mandel is a former special-forces soldier with a psychic 'gland' implant for reading emotions, working as a private investigator in a near-future Britain recovering from an authoritarian climate-crisis government.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Mindstar Rising →

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