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The Hunger GamesUniverse
universe5 books2008
Dystopia, tense and dark in tone.
“Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Hunger Games →
includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels
DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
Space opera, set in other star systems.
“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue
Start with Dune →
includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe
FoundationUniverse
universe123 books1940
About robots.
“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
from the catalogue
Start with Foundation →
includes Trantorian Empire, Foundation, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation Trilogy, The Positronic Robot Stories, Foundation (Original Stories)
Saint LeibowitzSeries
series6 books1955
completed
About faith and religion.
“Together the two novels form a sparse, decades-spanning series about memory, faith, and the cycles of civilization.”
from the catalogue
Start with A Canticle for Leibowitz →
Beyond This HorizonNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1948
Dystopia, about genetic engineering and rebellion and revolution, set in our world.
“For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty, and war have been things found only in the history tapes.”
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A Specter Is Haunting TexasNovel
Fritz Leiberstandalone novel1968
Satire, funny in tone, about class conflict.