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Brian W. Aldissstandalone novel1976

Historical fantasy, reflective in tone, about totalitarianism, set in big city.

“While Malacia is considered a near-utopia, the happiness in the city belies the authoritarian rule of the powerful Supreme Council, which uses fear to prevent progress.”
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Ring of Fire (1632)Universe

universe687 books2000

Alternate history, set in europe.

“Somewhere in the spring of 1631, the sky over a stretch of Thuringian farmland cracks open, and when it closes a piece of the year 2000 is sitting in the middle of the Thirty Years' War.”
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includes Queen of the Sea / The Alexander Inheritance, Assiti Shards Universe Novels, Time Spike

The Difference EngineNovel

William Gibson & Bruce Sterlingstandalone novel1990

Science fiction and steampunk, set in british isles and alternate earth.

“The computer age arrives a century early with Babbage's perfection of his 'analytical engine'.”
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FlatlandSeries

series2 books1884

Science fiction, set in otherworld.

“Ian Stewart's 2001 Flatterland follows a descendant of that narrator on a tour of stranger geometries, from curved and multidimensional space to relativity, as a knowing homage to Abbott's original.”
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Start with Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions →

Termination ShockNovel

Neal Stephensonstandalone novel2021

Science fiction, about ecological collapse, set in our world and near future.

The Baroque CycleSeries

series11 books2003

Historical fiction, set in renaissance and early modern and europe.

“The sciences of cryptology and numismatics feature heavily in the series, as they do in some of Stephenson's other works.”
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