“Shh, my Nuala. I am with you. Today I shall teach you the newness of you.” As the Engine breathes life into Nuala, her gaze falls on Teacher-Servant, the chosen one. He alone will be able to hear her thoughts and interpret her emotions...
Dystopian fiction
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Author:Beach, KimmySummary: - Author:Tunney, StephenSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Hieronymus Rexaphin has an amazing talent--he has the ability to see the fourth primary color, and therefore the unique future paths of time and matter. Because his eye color is illegal, he is forced to wear special...
- Author:Allan, Nina, Anders, Charlie Jane, Barker, Clive, Campbell, Ramsey, Delany, Samuel R., Di Filippo, Paul, Drummond, Ron, Kaneko, Rumi, Kelso, Chris, Machado, Carmen Maria, Mamatas, Nick, Miéville, China, Singh, Nikhil, Skipp, John, Christian, Autumn, Mandel, Emily St. John, Sugawara, D.R.G., Tambour, Anna, Thomas, Jeffrey, Tidhar, Lavie, Warren, KaaronSummary:
Featuring new and exclusive stories, as well as classics of the genre, Grassmann takes us through the fall and beyond, to the things that are created after. Calling on the finest traditions of post-apocalyptic fiction, this anthology...
- Author:Minty, NikkiSummary:
Ruby was murdered on Earth eighteen years ago and reincarnated on Zadok as a Pastel Zeek named Harlow. To be born at the bottom of her race's caste colour system to a middle-class family of Magentas has made Harlow a source of...
- Author:Asimov, IsaacSummary:
One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky,...
- Author:Better Hero ArmySummary:
When Tom, the son of a powerful Senator, becomes stranded in the Plagued States while searching for his lost sister, his only hope of survival rests in the hands of a few grizzled veteran zombie hunters and a mysterious half-breed...
- Author:Coupland, DouglasSummary:
In his 2010 CBC Massey Lectures acclaimed novelist and visual artist Douglas Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and macroeconomics and the afterlife in the form of a novel, a 5-hour story set...
- Author:Worth, LizSummary:
Sole survivor of a suicide pact, Ang has fallen into an underground music scene obsessed with the idea of the end of the world. But when the end finally does come, Ang and her friends don’t find the liberation they expected. Instead,...
- Author:Kling, Marc-UweSummary:
Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for...
- Author:Roth, VeronicaSummary:
Les fans de la série Divergence, écrite par Veronica Roth, auteure no.1 du New York Times, seront ravis de mettre la main sur Quatre — un recueil divergent, un ajout à la série qui comprend quatre histoires qui ont lieu avant Divergence...
- Author:Doctorow, CorySummary:
Radicalized is a timely collection consisting of four SF novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future. Canada Reads 2020. Bestseller. 2019.
- Author:Miller, Derek B.Summary:
When Lilly was first Chief Engineer at The Commonwealth, nearly fifty years ago, the Central Archive wasn't yet the greatest repository of knowledge in the known world, protected by scribes copying every piece of found material - books...
- Author:Cline, ErnestSummary:
A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity...
- Author:Zumas, LeniSummary:
One question. What is a woman for? In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every...
- Author:Brody, JenniferSummary:
As Myra Jackson and her friends set out to find the First Continuum, Captain Aero Wright and his two companions from the outer space Second Continuum find themselves banished for treason and stranded on Earth. Wright has vowed to...
- Author:Thorn, J.Summary:
With a noose around his neck, Samuel arrives in a forest littered with caution tape and artifacts of the deceased. He struggles to regain his memory while fending off a pack of wolves and the mysterious visitors who seem to know more...
- Author:Negovetich, SarahSummary:
Straight-laced, sixteen-year-old Rebecca can’t wait for her Acceptance. A fancy ball, eligible bachelors, and her debut as an official member of society. Instead, the Machine rejects Rebecca. Labeled as a future criminal, she’s shipped...
- Author:Mills, KyleSummary:
With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the president has been forced to establish his own clandestine group, Covert-One. It's activated only as a last resort, when the...
- Author:Nix, GarthSummary:
In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no human shall live a day past their fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the children of the Dorms are taken to the Meat Factory, where they will be made into...
- Author:Erickson, SteveSummary:
When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the badlands of South Dakota, nobody can explain their return. To the tens of thousands drawn to the "American Stonehenge," the Towers seem to sing, even as everybody hears a different song.
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