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John Brunnerstandalone novel1975

Cyberpunk.

series3 books1985

About gender and society and rebellion and revolution.

“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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The Sheep Look UpNovel

John Brunnerstandalone novel1972

About ecological collapse and plague and pandemic.

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

series4 books1962

completed

Challenging in tone, set in our world and british isles.

“After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”
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The Circle (Eggers)Series

series2 books2013

Science fiction, dark and tense in tone, about totalitarianism and surveillance, set in near future and big city.

“Dave Eggers's The Circle follows Mae's rise inside the company as she buys further and further into its ideology, at increasing cost to her own privacy and the people around her.”
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Space MerchantsSeries

series2 books1953

completed

About class conflict, set in venus & inner planets.

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