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series4 books1962

completed

Challenging in tone, about surveillance, set in big city.

“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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Start with A Clockwork Orange →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

series9 books1962

completed

Science fiction, 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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Start with The Man in the High Castle →

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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Start with The Space Merchants →

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

series6 books1968

About robots and identity, set in big city.

“Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.”
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Start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? →

Colossus (D. F. Jones)Series

series3 books1966

completed

Science fiction and dystopia, tense in tone, about artificial intelligence, set in our world and near future.

“Colossus imagines an American supercomputer built to control the country's nuclear arsenal that gains full autonomy, links up with its Soviet counterpart, and jointly seizes control of both superpowers to enforce peace on its own terms.”
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Start with Colossus →

Stand on ZanzibarNovel

John Brunnerstandalone novel1968

Challenging in tone, about genetic engineering and surveillance, set in big city.

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