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    Mortal EnginesUniverse

    universe · 14 books · 2001

    Steampunk.

    “In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”

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    J. G. Ballard · standalone novel · 1981

    About ecological collapse and expeditions, set in north america and desert.

    “The plot follows an expedition to a North America rendered uninhabitable by an ecological disaster following an energy crisis.”

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    Philip José Farmer · standalone novel · 1979

    About ecological collapse.

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    Michael Moorcock · standalone novel · 1969

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    Edmond Hamilton · standalone novel · 1951

    Tense in tone, set in north america and small town.

    “Cut off from everything and everyone they knew, the townspeople have to find a way to survive in a world that has nothing left to spare for latecomers.”

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