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  • Cover of Player Piano
    Player PianoNovel

    Kurt Vonnegut & Jr. · standalone novel · 1952

    Satire, about artificial intelligence, set in north america.

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    Make Room! Make Room!Novel

    Harry Harrison · standalone novel · 1966

    About survival and ecological collapse, set in north america and big city.

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    The Children of MenNovel

    P. D. James · standalone novel · 1992

    Post-apocalyptic, about totalitarianism and political intrigue, set in british isles.

    “Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere.”

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  • Cover of The Handmaid's Tale
    The Handmaid's TaleSeries

    series · 3 books · 1985

    About totalitarianism and gender and society, set in north america.

    “The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”

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    EarthworksNovel

    Brian W. Aldiss · standalone novel · 1965

    About ecological collapse.

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  • Cover of Space Merchants
    Space MerchantsSeries

    series · 2 books · 1953

    completed

    Set in venus & inner planets.

    “Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.”

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