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Twilight ZoneUniverse
universe40 books1960
Science fiction, set in our world.
“Picture, if you will, an ordinary person on an ordinary afternoon: a tired salesman, a frightened child, a man who wants only to be left alone.”
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Start with Stories from the Twilight Zone →
includes Twilight Zone Collections, Twilight Zone Scripts (Richard Matheson), Twilight Zone Scripts (Rod Serling), Twilight Zone Anthologies, The Twilight Zone Novels, Twilight Zone Doubles
The Collected Stories of Philip K. DickSeries
series11 books1987
completed
About identity.
“See Philip K. Dick bibliography for information about the mass market reprints.”
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Start with Beyond Lies the Wub →
Ring Around the SunNovel
Clifford D. Simakstandalone novel1953
About class conflict, set in parallel universe and north america.
MockingbirdNovel
Walter Tevisstandalone novel1980
Dystopia, reflective in tone, about loneliness, set in far future.
“WorldCat: In a future world where mankind is dying, humans wander through life in a drugged electronic bliss.”
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FoundationUniverse
universe123 books1940
Set in far future.
“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
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Start with Foundation →
includes The Positronic Robot Stories, Second Foundation Trilogy, Foundation, Trantorian Empire, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Original Stories)
Eye in the SkyNovel
Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1957
Challenging in tone, about identity and madness, set in north america.
“Eight visitors touring a particle-accelerator facility are caught in a catastrophic malfunction, a collapsing platform, a burst of radiation, that leaves them all unconscious.”
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