I See Your Soul

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All Quiet on the Western Front

The anti-war novel — inside the trenches of WWI with no glory, only mud

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Neuromancer

Gibson invented the word "cyberspace" — the founding text of the genre

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1984

Orwell invented the vocabulary every dystopian work still borrows

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Spec Ops: The Line

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Cyberpunk 2077

Night City is late-stage capitalism as a playground and a warning

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Apocalypse Now

Coppola's hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a journey into the heart of darkness

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Blade Runner 2049

Villeneuve's sequel expands the philosophical questions of the original

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Black Mirror

Brooker's anthology of technology-enabled social collapse