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Brutalist

Aesthetic utilizing monolithic concrete architecture, hard angles, and massive structures to project impersonal power and totalitarian order.

The chilling grandeur of immense, gray stone edifices that dwarf the individual, projecting an overwhelming sense of impersonal state power and inescapable order.

Books

Concrete IslandJ. G. Ballard
The World InsideRobert Silverberg
Tower of GlassRobert Silverberg
The WallJohn Lanchester
Eternity RoadJack McDevitt
HalfheadStuart B. MacBride
The HammerDavid Drake
Fly Me HomePolly Ho-Yen
StenAllan Cole
OnAdam Roberts
Disco for the DepartedColin Cotterill
Lords of the starshipMark S. Geston
Heroes and VillainsAngela Carter
PilgrimageDrew Mendelson
Silent VoicesGary McMahon
A New DawnJohn Jackson Miller
Project CLIOStephen Baxter
The Cosmic EyeMack Reynolds
The CompelledAdam Roberts

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