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  • Cover of Childhood's End
    Childhood's EndNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1953

    Bittersweet and reflective in tone, about technological singularity and identity.

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  • Cover of Stranger in a Strange Land
    Stranger in a Strange LandNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1961

    About faith and religion and psychic powers, set in north america.

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    The Game-Players of TitanNovel

    Philip K. Dick · standalone novel · 1963

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

    “Pete Garden's bipolar disorder threatens his standing among the game's players even as his new wife becomes pregnant, a near-miraculous event in this exhausted world, and his attraction to a telepath complicates things further.”

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    Great North RoadNovel

    Peter F. Hamilton · standalone novel · 2012

    Tense in tone, set in british isles and other star systems.

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    Ursula K. Le Guin · standalone novel · 1971

    Dystopia, tense in tone, about psychic powers.

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  • Cover of Greg Mandel
    Greg MandelSeries

    series · 5 books · 1993

    Tense in tone, 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.”

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