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Near Future

Near-future science fiction takes place in the present day or in the next few decades. Elements of the setting should be familiar to the reader, and the technology may be current or in development. Stories about nanotechnology or genetics often fall into this category.

New Releases Tagged "Near Future"

Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep

Most Read This Week Tagged "Near Future"

Vera, or Faith
Human Resources
Venomous Lumpsucker
Deep Freeze (The Revival Series, #1)
The Sanctuary
Terrestrial History
Glass Houses
The Great Transition
Sleeper Beach (Titanium Noir, #2)
The Lost Cause
We Are Satellites
The Launch Party
The New One
Moonrising
Past Crimes
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Near Future Books

Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
The Martian
Lock In (Lock In, #1)
Halting State (Halting State, #1)
The Handmaid's Tale
The Windup Girl
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Artemis
Station Eleven
Snow Crash
The Water Knife
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
Nexus (Nexus, #1)
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Lists

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own M... by Catherynne M. ValenteStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
SFF: Best Settings
49 books — 18 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood1984 by George OrwellDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
In The Grim Darkness of the Near Future
99 books — 91 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanGuards! Guards! by Terry PratchettGoing Postal by Terry PratchettThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
SFF: Best Characters
97 books — 20 voters
Threadborn Echo by Michael TalbotDesert's Edge by Dante F. Lupinetti
Infrastructure Fiction and Grid Collapse Novels
2 books — 2 voters

Firelight by Sophie JordanFallen by Lauren KateImmortal Knowledge by Nilesh V. ParmarTill Tomorrow by Patrick ManzaiAnimal Farm by George Orwell
To be Adapted to the Big Screen
11 books — 8 voters
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. BeagleThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakStardust by Neil GaimanThe Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine ArdenA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
SFF: Best Prose
43 books — 20 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Near Future”

Diana Colleen
“ Billionaire-ism is a curable illness. ”
― Diana Colleen, They Could Be Saviors: A near-future speculative fiction about billionaire accountability, psychedelic therapy, and climate reckoning.
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H. Meadow Hopewell
“ ...We’re already the prey, and we don’t even know it. ”
― H. Meadow Hopewell, Rage Against the Machine
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Videos Tagged “Near Future”

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Escape From the Future
Escape From the Future
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Groups Tagged "Near Future"

Every January, there is a literary seminar in Key West, Florida. Wonderful authors are invited. …more
3 members, last active 15 years ago
A group of writers and readers dedicated to offering positive visions of the future.
2 members, last active one year ago
Infrastructure futures & AI governance For readers who love stories where power grids, algorithms, and unseen systems matter as much as…more
1 member, last active 2 months ago
Q&A with Aaron Safronoff Interested in answering questions about my writing, my books, and anything else that interests t…more
2 members, last active 13 years ago

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