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Forge of GodSeries

series2 books1987

completed

Tense in tone.

“Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks.”
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The Dosadi ExperimentNovel

Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977

Space opera, tense in tone, about political intrigue, set in other star systems.

“Dosadi is rumored to be an experimental planet, and the experimenters are the froglike Gowachin, whose culture is founded upon a strange legal system in which McKie is the only human ever trained.”
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The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dystopia, tense in tone, set in north america.

“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.”
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includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels

The Stars My DestinationNovel

Alfred Besterstandalone novel1956

Space opera, about revenge and identity, set in space.

The Kraken WakesNovel

John Wyndhamstandalone novel1953

Tense in tone, about war, set in our world and mid 20th century.

“Earth's life is disrupted by the attacks of extraterrestrials whose war machines, emerging from the depths of the oceans, seem indestructible.”
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West of the SunNovel

Edgar Pangbornstandalone novel1953

Adventurous in tone, about space colonization, set in other star systems.

“West of the Sun ... on the dangerous planet Lucifer.”
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