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A book that I have read before has a very different culture than what we are used to living in. In the book The City of Gold and Lead by John Christopher, the world is under the control of foreign aliens known as the Masters and have been limiting human existence with their powerful machines known as Tripods. The subjected humans are "capped" at a certain age to prevent disobedience and resistence from the humans. However, a group of humans has been able to avoid being capped and tries to re-learn what their ancestors had known. The present science level is at about the mid-19th century with the resisting humans at a little later point and gradually progressing due to recovered books and articles from the 20th century (the present day for them is a while into the future). The free humans are constantly fighting to prevent the Masters from taking control of the whole world and soon begin a race against time as a spaceship from the Master's homeworld is coming to Earth that would kill the world for humans and make it entirely the Master's planet. Supression is a key component that is very different from our culture.