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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.”
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Start with The Man in the High Castle →

PatternistSeries

series6 books1976

completed

Dark in tone, about genetic engineering.

“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.”
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Start with Wild Seed →

JumperSeries

series6 books1992

Adventurous in tone, set in contemporary.

“Steven Gould's series continues across Reflex, Impulse, and Exo, later following his and his wife's daughter as a second-generation jumper.”
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Start with Jumper →

The Zap GunNovel

Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1967

Satire, dark in tone, about war, set in north america.

The Mind CageNovel

A. E. van Vogtstandalone novel1957

About totalitarianism.

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots, set in far future.

“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 The Positronic Robot Stories, Foundation, Trantorian Empire, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation Trilogy, Foundation (Original Stories)

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