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"

Detour (Detour, #1)
Vera, or Faith
Detour (Detour, #1)
All That We See or Seem (Julia Z, #1)
UnWorld
Human Resources
Venomous Lumpsucker
Deep Freeze (The Revival Series, #1)
Terrestrial History
The Great Transition
The Sanctuary
The Launch Party
We Are Satellites
The Job at the End of the World
Remember You Will Die
January Fifteenth
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)
Nexus (Nexus, #1)
Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
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
40 books — 13 voters
World War Z by Max BrooksThe Passage by Justin CroninHyperion by Dan SimmonsThe Wise Man's Fear by Patrick RothfussChildren of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Escape Into Sci-Fi and Fantasy
10 books — 1 voter

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Super Powered Characters Worth Reading
210 books — 215 voters
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Damn Sight, Good Space Opera
92 books — 81 voters

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Young and Violent
49 books — 9 voters
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Reflective Cosmopolitan.
4 books — 2 voters


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