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The Light of Other DaysNovel
Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxterstandalone novel2000
Challenging and tense in tone, about surveillance and technological singularity.
“An industrialist devises a technique to use tiny wormholes as light pipes to enable viewing of any event anywhere; and subsequently it becomes possible to use them to view any event in the past as well.”
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Where Late the Sweet Birds SangNovel
Kate Wilhelmstandalone novel1976
Post-apocalyptic, about survival and ecological collapse, set in north america.
Never Let Me GoNovel
Kazuo Ishigurostandalone novel2005
Dystopia and literary & general, sad in tone, about coming of age.
“A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010.”
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HardwiredSeries
series3 books1986
Cyberpunk, tense in tone.
“Voice of the Whirlwind, published three years later, is a loosely connected follow-up set in the same future, sharing its technological and political backdrop with a different cast of characters.”
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CloneNovel
Richard Cowperstandalone novel1972
Dystopia, tense in tone, about psychic powers.
Childhood's EndNovel
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1953
First contact, bittersweet in tone, about aliens and technological singularity.