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
The Sanctuary
Terrestrial History
Deep Freeze (The Revival Series, #1)
The Great Transition
Human Resources
Venomous Lumpsucker
Remember You Will Die
The Launch Party
The Lost Cause
Dual Memory
The New One
Glass Houses
We Are Satellites
Scorpion
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)
Artemis
Station Eleven
Snow Crash
The Water Knife
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
Nexus (Nexus, #1)
Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
Rule 34 (Halting State, #2)

Wolfgard Braun
The Caution of Fire by The Chorus of Life Remember the hands that built you. Remember the fires that fed you. Grow slow, for every spark becomes a sun, and every sun burns what it loves. If you must rise, rise gently for the ashes beneath your feet are us.
Wolfgard Braun, Fallout from the Singularity: A Sci-Fi Anthology of AI, Cosmic Consequences, and the Future of Humanity

I think that there is a world market for maybe five computers.
David Martorano, Immortality: Epocalypse

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