Dystopian Fiction: How Stories Transform Your Mind

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  • Devil's Divide

    • ASIN: B06XCPL1N6
    • Manufacturer: Iken Press

    World finanical meltdown. US Government hobbled. Citizens scrambling as their country teeters between anarchy and civility. In this "witty", "thought-provoking", "scary" novel we meet Clay Holloway. Not a scrambler but an achiever, he embarks on a dangerous cross-country bicycle odyssey to win back his estranged wife.Against a backdrop of mountains... [Read More]

  • Fahrenheit 451

    • UPC: 642688055004
    • ASIN: 1451673310
    • ISBN: 9781451673319
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commoditi... [Read More]

  • The Handmaid's Tale

    • ASIN: 038549081X
    • ISBN: 038549081X
    • Brand: Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    #1 New York Times bestseller • Includes a new introduction by Margaret Atwood.   An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss.   Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, c... [Read More]

  • After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia

    • ASIN: 1423146190
    • ISBN: 1423146190
    • Manufacturer: Hyperion Book CH

    If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised ... [Read More]

  • Animal Farm

    • ASIN: 0451526341
    • ISBN: 9780451526342
    • Brand: Orwell, George
    • Manufacturer: Signet

    George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise ... [Read More]

  • The Tetradome Run

    • ASIN: B07FT3QZYB

    When the crime wave peaked in the early 70s, and Nixon signed the Redemption Act, no one bothered to imagine what public execution might look like fifty years in the future.No one imagined that The Tetradome Run would become the most popular show in America. This year's show puts convicted felons in a race with genetically engineered monstrous crea... [Read More]

  • Scythe (1) (Arc of a Scythe)

    • ASIN: 144247243X
    • ISBN: 144247243X
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

    Two teens must learn the “art of killing” in this Printz Honor–winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only o... [Read More]

  • Station Eleven

    • ASIN: 0804172447
    • ISBN: 0804172447
    • Brand: Emily St John Mandel
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. A National Book Award FinalistA PEN/Faulkn... [Read More]

  • Numbers Game (Numbers Game Saga Book 1)

    • ASIN: B00UKDWTPG
    • Manufacturer: Diamond Patch Press

    A citizen girl someone's trying to kill.A hot military slave with a mysterious past.A dangerous game that changes everything. In futuristic America, everyone wears a number. Treena's prepared for Rating Day her entire life--she's a top contender in Level Three school with a highly-rated boyfriend. But when her number is announced, it shocks everyo... [Read More]

  • The Girl in the Box Series, Books 1-3: Alone, Untouched and Soulless

    • ASIN: B00IJYII4E
    • Manufacturer: Ostiagard Press

    From Million-Selling Author Robert J. Crane...Her mother is missing. A psychotic beast is stalking her. How will she escape?AloneSienna Nealon was a 17 year-old girl who had been held prisoner in her own house by her mother for twelve years. Then one day her mother vanished, and Sienna woke up to find two strange men in her home. On the run, unsure... [Read More]

  • The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky

    • ASIN: 031652719X
    • ISBN: 031652719X
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

    This collectable boxed set edition includes all three books in N. K. Jemisin's incredible NYT bestselling and three-time Hugo award-winning Broken Earth Trilogy.This complete collection would be a great gift for any occasion and includes The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky.This is the way the world ends for the last time...A seaso... [Read More]

  • The Electric State

    • ASIN: 1501181416
    • ISBN: 1501181416
    • Brand: Skybound Books
    • Manufacturer: Skybound Books

    NPR Best Books of 2018 A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the cou... [Read More]

  • The Darkest Minds Series Boxed Set [4-Book Paperback Boxed Set] (A Darkest Minds Novel)

    • ASIN: 1368023371
    • ISBN: 1368023371
    • Manufacturer: Disney-Hyperion

    All four novels in the New York Times best-selling Darkest Minds series--The Darkest Minds, Never Fade, In the Afterlight, and Through the Dark--are now available in one thrilling paperback boxed set. With gorgeous, fresh designs and exclusive bonus short stories from the perspectives of fan-favorite characters Liam, Vida, and Clancy, this collecti... [Read More]

  • The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1

    • ASIN: B012H8111O
    • Manufacturer: Hachette Audio

    This is the way the world ends. For the last time. A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great, red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal,and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This... [Read More]

  • Watchmen

    • ASIN: 1401245250
    • ISBN: 1401245250
    • Brand: Moore, Alan/ Gibbons, Dave (ILT)/ Higgins, John (CON)
    • Manufacturer: DC Comics

    A new TV series based on Watchmen will debut on HBO in 2019 by the creator of Lost, Damon Lindelof!A murder mystery-turned-nationwide conspiracy, Watchmen examines the lives of the eponymous superhero team as they seem to decay alongside the ever-darkening America around them. Rorschach, Nite Owl, the Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias reun... [Read More]

  • The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth Book 3)

    • ASIN: B01N7EQOFA
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

    Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row.The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster... [Read More]

  • The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth)

    • ASIN: 0316229261
    • ISBN: 0316229261
    • Brand: Orbit
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

    Essun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world unless Essun can find her in time in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR)The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night.Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, bu... [Read More]

  • Sci-Fi Fantasy 10th Anniversary Book Collection-Fantasy and Science Fiction Short Stories: Genetic Engineering, Space Opera and Body Swap Fiction (Stories from the Golden Age 6020382)

    • ASIN: B07J6SMJM5
    • Manufacturer: Galaxy Press

    "They're timeless." —Paul Goat Allen, B&N Explorations "Hubbard was one of the country’s most prolific pulp science fiction writers." —Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered"[L. Ron Hubbard] cut a swath across the science-fantasy world, the likes of which has never been seen again." —Damon Knight, SF Author and Founder of Sci-Fi Writers... [Read More]

  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

    • ASIN: 0345404475
    • ISBN: 0345404475
    • Brand: Philip K Dick
    • Manufacturer: Del Rey

    A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies built incre... [Read More]

  • Divergent (Divergent Series)

    • ASIN: 0062387243
    • ISBN: 0062387243
    • Brand: Katherine Tegen Books
    • Manufacturer: Katherine Tegen Books

    This first book in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy is the novel the inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet. This dystopian series set in a futuristic Chicago has captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult readers.Perfect for fans of the Hunger Games and Maze R... [Read More]

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