This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a...
Dystopian fiction
- Author:King, StephenSummary:
- Author:Neuvel, SylvainSummary:
Award-winning author Sylvain Neuvel explores an immigration dystopia in The Test Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine their...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic;and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's...
- Author:Lai, LarissaSummary:
In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them...
- Author:Wells, H. G.Summary:
An unnamed Time Traveller visits the year 802,701 and finds two unusual races whose ways of life lead him to question the social and financial assumptions of his own era. Packed with adventure, romance and a great deal of social...
- Author:Roth, VeronicaSummary:
Complete your Divergent library with the Four stories! Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be excited by Four: The Traitor, the fourth of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-...
- Author:Roth, VeronicaSummary:
The first of four new short stories told from the perspective of everyone's favorite Divergent love interest! More Four! Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by The...
- Author:Shaw, Ali.Summary:
A compulsive, mesmerising and wildly imaginative novel in the vein of Pan's Labyrinth and Station Eleven, following four people as they struggle to survive in a world where nature fights back - from the award-winning author of The...
- Author:Carey, M. R.Summary:
Koli never planned to set foot outside his small village. He knew that beyond its walls lay a fearsome landscape filled with choker trees, vicious beasts, and Shunned men. But when he was exiled, he had no choice but to journey out into...
- Author:Kempley, RitaSummary:
Dystopian sci-fi thriller with darkly comic shading set in the New York Archipelago in 2120. After hurricane Adolph turns New York City into Big Apple Sauce, the good life goes on and on and on for one-percenters like Margaret Hughes....
- Author:Itäranta, EmmiSummary:
Eliana is a weaver in the prestigious House of Webs, but she has a secret--she can dream, an ability forbidden by the island's council of elders. When a girl is found unconscious with Eliana's name tattooed on her palm, Eliana will have...
- Author:Gom, LeonaSummary:
The Y Chromosome challenges the reader to meet an all-woman society of the future. The few remaining men live in hiding. When one of these men is discovered, the resulting conflict threatens both worlds.
The futurist society was...
- Author:Yanagihara, HanyaSummary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the author of the classic A Little Life- a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise...
- Author:Liddell, Merilyn RuthSummary:
"A misguided experiment. A devastated world. A chance for rebirth. In a world decimated by a killer virus, an isolated mountain community is left more dysfunctional than dystopian. Small town. Big secrets. It's a place where...
- Author:Blair, KateSummary:
London, England, present day. This is the world as we know it, but with one key difference: medical science has found a way to remove diseases from the sick. The catch? They can only transfer the diseases into other living humans. The...
- Author:Stine, AlisonSummary:
A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. In the region-wide...
- Author:Chappell-Pollack, Nancy, Nelson, ColleenSummary:
Following the events of Pulse Point, 12-year old Ama and the other Underlanders living in a world of darkness dig for brine, the City's real energy source. Underland is a dangerous place: cave-ins, starvation and illness are...
- Author:Mafi, TaherehSummary:
Perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling Shatter Me trilogy, this audiobook collects her two companion novellas, Fracture Me and Destroy Me, for the first time in audio. It also features an exclusive look into...
- Author:Mafi, TaherehSummary:
The thrilling second installment in New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me series. It should have taken Juliette a single touch to kill Warner. But his mysterious immunity to her deadly power has left her...
- Author:Highley, Kendra C.Summary:
Lexa Pate, seventeen-year-old thief extraordinaire, has burned a bridge or two in her life. You don’t make a career out of stealing other people’s property without making enemies. When a risky job goes from bad to worse, Lexa and her...