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universe5 books2008

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

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, set in other star systems.

“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, Dune Sequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe

HainishSeries

series33 books1964

completed

Reflective in tone, set in other star systems.

“The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.”
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Start with Rocannon's World →

Chaos WalkingSeries

series5 books2008

Set in other star systems.

Start with The Knife of Never Letting Go →

LoganSeries

series8 books1967

Science fiction and dystopia, set in far future.

“William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson's Logan's Run imagines a future society that maintains its population and resources by requiring everyone to die at 21, hunted down by enforcers called Sandmen if they refuse.”
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Start with Logan's Run →

The Dosadi ExperimentNovel

Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977

Space opera, about political intrigue and aliens, set in other star systems.

“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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