Find your next SF/F read by mood

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

series6 books1968

Cyberpunk, dark in tone, about robots, set in big city.

“Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.”
from the catalogue

Start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? →

Ship BreakerSeries

series3 books2010

Post-apocalyptic, dark in tone, about survival, set in north america.

“Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune.”
from the catalogue

Start with Ship Breaker →

PatternistSeries

series6 books1976

completed

Dark in tone.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
from the catalogue

Start with Wild Seed →

Unwind DystologySeries

series5 books2007

Dark in tone, about rebellion and revolution, set in north america.

“The first novel follows three teens fleeing that fate, and the sequels widen the same dystopia's cast and consequences across a four-book arc plus companion material.”
from the catalogue

Start with Unwind →

Beyond This HorizonNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1948

Reflective in tone, about rebellion and revolution, set in far future and north america.

“For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty, and war have been things found only in the history tapes.”
from the catalogue

More like The Enhanced