As nightmarish scenarios begin to affect an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and off at night, a young astronomer rises through the political hierarchy.
Dystopian fiction
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Author:Strugat︠s︡kiĭ, Arkadiĭ, Strugat︠s︡kiĭ, BorisSummary: - Author:Hunter, MeganSummary:
As London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from...
- Author:Whitehead, John W.Summary:
Welcome to 2084. Be warned: utopia does not await us. The dystopian future that George Orwell predicted for 1984 has finally arrived, one hundred years late and ten times as brutal. To save all that he loves, Orwell will have to travel...
- Author:Chrostowska, S. D.Summary:
In near-future America, sleep has been banned. Our unemployed, dream-prone narrator finds himself following Chevauchet, a diplomat from Onirica, a foreign republic of dreams, to resist the prohibition. On a mission to combat the state-...
- Author:Carey, M. R.Summary:
Now that Koli and his companions have found the source of the signal they've been following--the mysterious "Sword of Albion"--there is hope that their perilous journey will finally be worth something. They're...
- Author:Kinch, MichaelSummary:
Under siege in the harsh African desert. Their only choice: rise up against ruthless renegades... or die. After weeks of suffering from exhaustion and starvation, Jaym and D’Shay, conscripted NorthAm Blenders, have helped dozens of...
- Author:Marcus, BenSummary:
Marcus creates a chilling world where the speech of children is killing their parents. After being forced to leave their daughter Esther to fend for herself, Sam and Claire end up at a government lab intent on creating non-lethal speech...
- Author:Leroux, CatherineSummary:
A woman seeking justice in an imagined Detroit discovers resilience and resistance where she least expects they will be found. Looking for answers, and her missing granddaughters, Gloria moves into the house where her daughter was...
- Author:Lowry, LoisSummary:
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
- Author:Makansi, K.Summary:
Remy Alexander wants revolution. After watching Vale fall back into the hands of the Sector, she will stop at nothing to reveal the corruption in Okaria. When she joins a secret Outsider network in the underbelly of the capital city,...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to...
- Author:Greengrass, JessieSummary:
Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies. Caro, Pauly, Sally, and Grandy are safe, so far, from the...
- Author:Collins, SuzanneSummary:
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between...
- Author:Foster, SaraSummary:
Amidst a terrifying epidemic--when a healthy baby won't take a breath at birth--Lainey's friend Ellis has gone missing, as have several young pregnant women. The government's new laws monitor all citizens; yet Lainey...
- Author:Roth, VeronicaSummary:
More Four! Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by The Initiate, the second of four new short stories told from Four's perspective. Each brief story explores the world...
- Author:Kwaymullina, AmbelinSummary:
They're known as Firestarters. Boomers. Skychangers. The government calls them Illegals -- children with inexplicable abilities -- and detains them in menacing facilities so that society is kept out of harm way. Ashala Wolf and her...
- Author:Lunde, MajaSummary:
A powerful tale of survival and connection--of humans, animals, and the indestructible bonds that unite us all.
- Author:Quinn, Susan KayeSummary:
What would you give to live forever? Seventeen-year-old Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender—a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid—after all, they’re smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly...
- Author:Quinn, Susan KayeSummary:
What would you give to live forever? Seventeen-year-old Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender—a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid—after all, they’re smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly...
- Author:Crewe, MeganSummary:
In the second installment in this dystopian trilogy, the virus has spread beyond Kaelyn's island, and she and her friends must head to the mainland, carrying with them hopes for a cure.
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