From crumbling budgets to breakthrough longevity and climate shocks, a near-future America teeters between reinvention and collapse. 2030 is a sharp, funny, unsettling look at how technology and politics redraw the map of ordinary life.
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If you found yourself laughing at the sharp satire in 2030, you'll appreciate Super Sad True Love Story. Shteyngart skewers near-future America with biting wit, from the absurd obsession with youth and technology to the crumbling social fabric. The protagonist, Lenny Abramov, navigates love and bureaucracy in a world both hilarious and uncomfortably recognizable.
If you were drawn to how 2030 imagines the consequences of contemporary trends, The Circle takes you deeper into a plausible near-future where a tech giant’s quest for transparency upends privacy and identity. Follow Mae Holland as she enters The Circle and watch the chilling, all-too-real consequences unfold.
If you liked how 2030 uses a future America to explore today’s political anxieties, American War offers a gripping, emotionally resonant vision of a second American Civil War. The novel follows Sarat Chestnut, whose journey through a fractured nation is as poignant and unsettling as the social commentary in Brooks’s work.
If you appreciated the meticulous construction of a believable future in 2030, you'll be captivated by Oryx and Crake. Atwood’s novel immerses you in a world shaped by genetic engineering and corporate dominance, revealing through Jimmy’s eyes how incremental changes lead to profound consequences.
If you enjoyed the way 2030 follows different characters to paint a broad portrait of its future, Red Clocks will intrigue you. Zumas tells the stories of five women whose lives intertwine in a near-future America, offering a nuanced, multi-voiced exploration of societal change.
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