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.

Vera, or Faith
Human Resources
Venomous Lumpsucker
We Are Satellites
Terrestrial History
Remember You Will Die
The Sanctuary
Deep Freeze (The Revival Series, #1)
Glass Houses
The Great Transition
Sleeper Beach (Titanium Noir, #2)
Scorpion
Moonrising
Mechanize My Hands to War
In Our Likeness
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
The Martian
Lock In (Lock In, #1)
The Handmaid's Tale
Halting State (Halting State, #1)
The Windup Girl
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Snow Crash
Artemis
Station Eleven
The Water Knife
The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
The Ministry of Time
Veil's Edge by Carla AthertonWorld War Z by Max BrooksThe Passage by Justin CroninHyperion by Dan SimmonsThe Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
Escape Into Sci-Fi and Fantasy
11 books — 2 voters
The Cyclops by Emerson LittlefieldThe Quest for Freedom by Matthew D. Devitt1984 by George OrwellIt by Stephen  KingGood Omens by Terry Pratchett
SFF: Best Plot
41 books — 42 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Old Future
103 books — 11 voters


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“ Anne Mom was always predicting things in the near future. "I'm the Nostradamus of two weeks from now," she told Vera over and over again.... ...more ”
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