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Golden Son

Golden Son moves Pierce Brown's Red Rising story beyond the first novel's academy setting into interplanetary conflict....

Contemporary Dystopian Rebellion Brown

8.82 Great

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Stand on Zanzibar

John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar, published in 1968, imagines a crowded twenty-first-century Earth under pressure from o...

Classic Corporate Satire Overpopulation

8.63 Great

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Dark Age

The fifth book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising Saga, Dark Age was published in 2019 after the 2018 installment Iron Gold. I...

Contemporary Dystopian War Brown

8.43 Great

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The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer's The House of the Scorpion places a young person's search for identity inside a society that treats some h...

Contemporary Biotech Cloning Farmer

8.38 Great

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Light Bringer

Published in 2023, Light Bringer is Pierce Brown's sixth Red Rising Saga novel and continues directly from Dark Age. Dar...

Action Contemporary Dystopian Brown

8.36 Great

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Monsters of Men

Published in 2010, Monsters of Men concludes Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking trilogy after The Knife of Never Letting Go an...

Contemporary War Ya Ness

8.31 Great

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Count Zero

William Gibson's Count Zero, published in 1986, is the second Sprawl trilogy novel, following Neuromancer. Three initial...

Modern AI Corporate Gibson

8.28 Great

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The Ask and the Answer

"The Ask and the Answer" is a 2009 young adult dystopian novel by Patrick Ness, serving as the second installment in the...

Contemporary War Ya Ness

8.23 Great

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Player Piano

Player Piano is Kurt Vonnegut's debut novel, published in 1952. Set in a future industrialized America where automated m...

Classic Automation Corporate Satire

7.82 Good

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The Drowned Cities

The Drowned Cities is a young adult novel by Paolo Bacigalupi, published in 2012. Set in a future United States devastat...

Post Apocalyptic Contemporary Environmental War

7.78 Good

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Virtual Light

Virtual Light is a 1993 cyberpunk novel by William Gibson and the first book in his Bridge trilogy. Set in a near-future...

Modern Corporate Gibson Cyberpunk

7.73 Good

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Iron Gold

Iron Gold is a 2018 science fiction novel by Pierce Brown and the fourth book in the Red Rising Saga, continuing the sto...

Contemporary Dystopian Political Brown

7.72 Good

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Daemon

Daemon is Daniel Suarez's techno-thriller, self-published in 2006 and commercially released in 2009, about a self-execut...

Contemporary AI Corporate Tech

7.64 Good

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Jennifer Government

Jennifer Government is a satirical science fiction novel written by Australian author Max Barry and published in 2003. T...

Contemporary Corporate Satire Consumerism

7.42 Good

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The Mime Order

The Mime Order is a dystopian novel by Samantha Shannon, published in 2015 as the second book in The Bone Season series,...

Contemporary Rebellion Shannon Clairvoyant

7.42 Good

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The Mask Falling

"The Mask Falling" is a dystopian science fiction novel by Samantha Shannon, published in 2021. It is the fourth install...

Contemporary Dystopian Shannon Clairvoyant

7.39 Good

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Concrete Island

"Concrete Island" is a novel by British author J.G. Ballard, first published in 1974. The story centers on Robert Maitla...

Modern Survival Urban Isolation

7.35 Good

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The Warehouse

"The Warehouse" is a 2019 dystopian thriller novel written by Rob Hart. The story is set in a near-future United States...

Contemporary Corporate Surveillance Hart

6.94 Fair

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The Every

The Every is a 2021 novel by American writer Dave Eggers and a sequel to his 2013 novel The Circle. It follows Delaney W...

Contemporary Corporate Tech Surveillance

5.82 Mediocre

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Ready Player Two

Ready Player Two is a 2020 science-fiction novel by American author Ernest Cline and the sequel to Ready Player One. Set...

Contemporary Corporate Virtual Reality Cyberpunk

4.34 Poor