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Space MerchantsSeries
series2 books1953
completed
Dark in tone, set in venus & inner planets.
“Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.”
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Make Room! Make Room!Novel
Harry Harrisonstandalone novel1966
Dark in tone, about survival and ecological collapse, set in big city.
Oath of FealtyNovel
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournellestandalone novel1981
Set in big city.
“Set in the near future, it involves an arcology, a large inhabited structure, called Todos Santos, which rises above a crime-ridden Los Angeles, California, but has little beyond casual contact with the city.”
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The Thousandth FloorSeries
series3 books2016
Set in big city.
“Katharine McGee's trilogy imagines Manhattan in 2118 as a single thousand-story tower housing every stratum of society, following five teenagers whose ambitions collide as they climb toward, or fall from, its highest floors.”
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The SelectionSeries
series12 books2012
Romance, about love triangle.
“Cass continued her writing career, rewriting and releasing her 2008 online novel, The Siren.”
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FeedNovel
M. T. Andersonstandalone novel2002
Cyberpunk and satire, about coming of age.