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The Hunger GamesUniverse
universe5 books2008
Dystopia, about totalitarianism, 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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Start with The Hunger Games →
includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels
The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
Space opera, about political intrigue and aliens.
“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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DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
Space opera, about political intrigue.
“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.”
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Start with Dune →
includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe
The ChrysalidsNovel
John Wyndhamstandalone novel1955
Reflective in tone, about coming of age and psychic powers, set in secondary world.
“An early manuscript version was entitled Time for a Change.”
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Shade's Children milieuSeries
series2 books1997
Dystopia, about coming of age, set in near future.
Start with Shade's Children →
TripodsSeries
series4 books1967
completed
Alien invasion, about aliens, set in our world and near future.
“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
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Start with When the Tripods Came →