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* Harry Harrison's 1966 novel [[wikipedia:Make Room! Make Room!|Make Room! Make Room!]] is quite dystopian. Somehow 344 million people is supposed to be a lot of people.
* ''Taken'' by Edward Bloor takes place sometime in the 2050s. The date is never specified, but it is hinted at by characters mentioning the recent 100 year anniversary of ''[[I Love Lucy]]''. The major differences are that indentured servitude is legal, the ultrarich live in extremely gated communities, and it is common for the children of the ultra rich to be kidnapped for ransoms.
* It's implied that ''[[Ender's Game]]'' and the ''[[EndersEnder's Shadow]]'' series take place in Earth's near future; Earth itself is almost unchanged, but military technology is much more advanced (though it also appears to take place in an alternate world where the Warsaw Pact remained a powerful threat). [[Fridge Brilliance|It could be that in a world where aliens have attacked and killed a sizable amount of people, all funding when straight to the military and space travel, causing other technology on Earth to stagnate.]] The books following ''[[Ender's Game]]'' explicitly take place 3000 years after the first one, so it's averted there.
* [[Time Scout]] implies that it's this, but is functionally the same as [[Next Sunday AD]]. May be [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that The Accident, a Class 0 [[Apocalypse How]] might have stunted things.
* ''[[WWW Trilogy]]''
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