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When the Sleeper WakesNovel
H. G. Wellsstandalone novel1899
Dark in tone, about totalitarianism, set in our world and british isles.
“Graham, an insomniac Englishman in 1890s London, takes a course of sleep-inducing drugs and falls into a coma that lasts two centuries.”
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The Hunger GamesUniverse
universe5 books2008
Dark in tone, about survival, 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 Moon Is a Harsh MistressNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1966
Adventurous in tone, about artificial intelligence and space colonization, set in the moon.
Red RisingSeries
series13 books2014
Space opera, dark in tone, about class conflict.
“Pierce Brown's Red Rising follows Darrow, a lowborn 'Red' miner on a colonized Mars who discovers his caste's suffering is a lie sustained by the ruling Gold elite, and infiltrates their ranks to destroy the system from within.”
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Beyond This HorizonNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1948
Reflective in tone, about genetic engineering, set in our world and north america.
“For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty, and war have been things found only in the history tapes.”
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FoundationUniverse
universe123 books1940
About robots.
“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 Trantorian Empire, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Foundation, Second Foundation Trilogy, The Positronic Robot Stories, Foundation (Original Stories)