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The Thousandth FloorSeries
series3 books2016
Science fiction and dystopia, tense in tone, about class conflict, set in near future and north america.
“Katharine McGee's trilogy imagines Manhattan in 2118 as a single thousand-story tower housing every stratum of society, following five teenagers whose ambitions collide as they climb toward, or fall from, its highest floors.”
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The Handmaid's TaleSeries
series3 books1985
About totalitarianism and gender and society.
“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
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Make Room! Make Room!Novel
Harry Harrisonstandalone novel1966
About survival and ecological collapse, set in our world.
Space MerchantsSeries
series2 books1953
completed
Set in venus & inner planets.
“Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.”
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Oath of FealtyNovel
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournellestandalone novel1981
Set in our world.
“Set in the near future, it involves an arcology, a large inhabited structure, called Todos Santos, which rises above a crime-ridden Los Angeles, California, but has little beyond casual contact with the city.”
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The Shockwave RiderNovel
John Brunnerstandalone novel1975
Cyberpunk and post-apocalyptic, about totalitarianism.