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Algis Budrysstandalone novel1958

Tense in tone, about identity.

universe123 books1940

Set in far future.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
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Start with Foundation →

includes The Positronic Robot Stories, Foundation, Second Foundation Trilogy, Trantorian Empire, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Original Stories)

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

series9 books1962

completed

Set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
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The Themis FilesSeries

series3 books2015

Tense in tone, about aliens, set in contemporary.

“Sleeping Giants and its sequels are told almost entirely through interview transcripts conducted by an unnamed, evasive interrogator, giving the series a documentary, oral-history feel unusual for first-contact SF.”
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Ring Around the SunNovel

Clifford D. Simakstandalone novel1953

About class conflict, set in parallel universe and north america.

Against the Fall of NightSeries

series2 books1953

Reflective in tone, about space exploration, set in other star systems and far future.

“Against the Fall of Night is Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 novel of a stagnant, climate-controlled city called Diaspar a billion years in Earth's future, where a young man named Alvin becomes the first in living memory to want to leave it.”
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