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series6 books1976

completed

Dark in tone.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
from the catalogue

Start with Wild Seed →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

series9 books1962

completed

Science fiction, set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue

Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

Ender's GameUniverse

universe39 books1977

Set in far future.

“To beat your enemy you must first understand him so completely that you love him — and in the instant you love him, you destroy him.”
from the catalogue

Start with Ender's Game →

includes Ender's Shadow, Ender Wiggin, First Formic War, Second Formic War, Fleet School

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

series6 books1968

Cyberpunk, dark in tone, about robots and identity.

“Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.”
from the catalogue

Start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? →

DarwinSeries

series2 books1999

completed

Hard science fiction, about plague and pandemic, set in north america.

“Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio imagines a dormant retrovirus in human DNA activating worldwide, triggering an accelerated leap in human evolution that governments respond to as a plague.”
from the catalogue

Start with Darwin's Radio →

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