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Vendor: Ewan Morrison
How to Survive Everything
Longlisted for the 2021 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2021 Bookmark Book of the Year PrizeOne of the most provocative, intelligent and original novelists working in Britain today (Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting) makes his American debut with...- $51.99
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CAESAR'S COLUMN - A Story of the Future
Ignatius Donnelly's Caesar's Column - A Story of the Future (Hardback: Jacketed Case Laminate)Introduction by Arthur DesmondA dangerously revolutionary futuristic novel with a dystopian theme in a New York setting.The book is luridly fascinating. 1988, New York, the scene of the story, is an...- $24.00
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Vendor: Nina Schuyler
Afterword
A pioneer of artificial intelligence rebuilds the love of her life, but when she discovers he's been feeding incriminating civilian information to the Chinese government, she'll have to decide whether to keep or kill him.When approached by a Chinese tech company, Virginia Samson is...- $18.95
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Vendor: Sarah Pinborough
The Death House
Lord of the Flies meets Never Let Me Go in this "moving and totally involving" (Stephen King) dystopian thriller from the internationally best-selling author of Behind Her Eyes Toby's life was perfectly normal . . . until it was unraveled by something as simple...- $14.95
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Vendor: Mike Gutowski
Seventh Ratica
When ghouls come out of the shadows to play, all darkness turns into gray.In this book you will read sentences that sting and sing and everything in between."It's raining. Come in." "So it is. Come out."Ratica: writing material of the ancients, i.e., what they...- $16.99
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Vendor: Pierce Brown
Light Bringer
Darrow returns as Pierce Brown's New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age."The measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends."--Virginia au AugustusThe Reaper...- $49.99
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Vendor: Amy L. Bernstein
The Potrero Complex
Journalist Rags Goldner is battle-scarred and heartbroken after covering a devastating pandemic that rages in Baltimore for five years. She leaves the city with her partner in search of a simpler life in small-town Maryland--only to discover nothing in Canary is simple. A teenager...- $18.95
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Vendor: Anne Charnock
Bridge 108
From the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author, a dystopian novel of oppression set in the climate-ravaged Europe of A Calculated Life, a finalist for the Kitschies award and Philip K. Dick Award.Late in the twenty-first century, drought and wildfires prompt an exodus from southern...- $14.95
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Vendor: Barbara J. Gilbert
Future Apocalypse - A Time Travels Series, Beginnings Book 1
2nd Edition, with New and updated material Looking for a different twist to the Apocalypse?In eighth grade she knew one thing......science was awesome.Would her future self change the world?At 24, Paulette's got a dream, but it's going to take a lot of money. The...- $11.99
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Vendor: Ewan Morrison
How to Survive Everything
Longlisted for the 2021 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2021 Bookmark Book of the Year Prize"One of the most provocative, intelligent and original novelists working in Britain today" (Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting) makes his American debut with...- $17.00
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Burntcoat
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE"An extraordinary work that will stand as blazing witness to the age that bore it." -- Sarah PerryA "masterpiece" (Daisy Johnson) of mortality, passion, and human connection, set against the backdrop of a deadly global virus--from the Booker-nominated writerYou...- $17.99
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Vendor: Rubie Woodland
Eternal Dark
When an orphaned teenage boy is caught stealing food and sent to a reform school his chances of ever being free again are non-existent. But a future far worse than being government property is imminent. Will he be able to escape his fate?Kalini wants...- $14.99
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Vendor: Evette Davis
48 States
"Powered by impeccably deep character development (every major player is insightfully explored, particularly River) and a storyline that may not seem so far-fetched after recent political events-book bans, federal curfews, and digital identity chips-Davis creates a terrifying near future... With a breakneck pace from...- $14.99
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Vendor: Lee S. Hannon
Unitas: Book #2 of the UNITAS Series
There can only be one winner in the ruthless game to control The City. The players include: an intelligent female scientist with a life-saving discovery, a detective seeking justice from an uncaught serial killer, an irresponsible time traveler wishing he belonged, a powerful android...- $27.99
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Reign
After barely escaping with her life, Ashen finds her way home to the Arc, thanks to the help of an old friend.After a long absence, Ash isn't sure what she's about to find. The Bishop's deception and cruelty have turned her world upside down,...- $16.24
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Malibu Burns
Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...- $19.99
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Vendor: Mark Richardson
Malibu Burns
Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...- $33.49
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Vendor: H. R. Truelove
Alter: A Glitch in the Multiverse
Laura was born with the ability to jump between worlds, using the power of her mind. Finally free of the institutions that stole her youth, Laura is desperate for a normal life. Unfortunately, that's harder than she expected. She can't keep a job, she's...- $25.99
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Vendor: Nancy Stohlman
After the Rapture
After the Rapture is a flash fiction hybrid book written at the intersection between flash fiction and the novel. A leader and innovator of the form, Stohlman fragments the long form narrative into the distilled intensity of micro and compressed fiction while still maintaining...- $16.00
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Vendor: Yevgeny Zamyatin
We: With the Introductory Chapter, The Revolution and Famine in Russia By H. G. Wells
D-503 is a mathematician and citizen of One State, a totalitarian society whose inhabitants live passionless lives under the all-powerful 'Benefactor'. However, when D-503 discovers that he has an individual soul, everything changes. Set in the twenty-sixth century, "We" is the dystopian science fiction...- $22.99
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Vendor: H. G. Wells
Time Machine and Other Stories
This book is a collection of eight short stories written by H. G. Wells. "The Short Stories of H. G. Wells" constitutes a must-have for lovers of the short storm form and is not to be missed by fans of Wells' fantastic work. Herbert...- $24.99
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Vendor: James Barclay
The Queen's Assassin
Naida is living a lie.A peerless battlefield surgeon. A talisman for the army. A symbol of hope in an impossible, grinding war.A fraud.Society, led by the queen, has long held that the Esselrode people and their abilities are inherently, irredeemably evil, a truth which...- $17.99
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Vendor: Michele Friedman
Gadarene
A prescient post-apocalyptic novel, Gadarene features searing social commentary and unrequited love against the backdrop of societal upheaval.In a summer of volatile protests and suffocating heat, Atticus meets Amelia amongst the shifting, dancing bodies at a bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side. When rumor...- $27.00
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Vendor: Jeanne Hull Godfroy
Midgard
The Earth is Dying. How would you choose who gets to live? It is the mid-22nd century, a time in which humankind has reached a point of no return with respect to the destruction of its habitat on Earth. The only ray of hope...- $11.01
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Vendor: Tom Rob Smith
Cold People
* "A zany, wildly gripping, dark futuristic fantasy." --Vogue, Most Anticipated Books of the Year * "Fascinating...a propulsive ride...through a well-built world." --The Christian Science Monitor * From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 and creator of the FX series Class of '09...- $28.99
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Vendor: Jed Cullen
Zaven
Detention on your first day of High School is one thing, but your teacher trying to eat you is a bit excessive... Set in suburban Florida, Tyler Graham and his friends must band together to survive a zombie outbreak.Written by Jed Cullen, Zaven is...- $22.99
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Vendor: M. J. Maloney
The Ghostwriters
In a re-wilded, near-future England, a group of activists led by a writer try to make a noise in a society that refuses to hear its people. A re-wilded, half-submerged England is home to a divided society split into "haves" and "have-nots." Susan, once...- $25.95
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Vendor: Mitchell Tierney
The Penance Task
Clank!Delphi awakes in another strange room, in a house she can't remember. Three others are experiencing the same memory loss. They find themselves in an abandoned town, in the middle of nowhere. Thinking they are alone, they head toward the edge of town where...- $9.99
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Vendor: Kang Young-Sook
At Night He Lifts Weights
A disquieting vision of ecological dystopia in a collection by a major Korean writer.An artist is plagued by desire for her mysterious double as disease spreads through an uncanny suburban landscape. An elderly woman suspects the old man who lifts weights in her neighborhood...- $16.95
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Vendor: Jean-Louis Roy
Shanghai 2040
A novel which challenges us to imagine the world-order in 2040. What if China dramatically reinvents global relations. Imagine the near future when the East assumes the reins of power in world politics, as well as global leadership in economic matters! On May 1,...- $24.95
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Vendor: Rikki Ducornet
The Plotinus
Incarcerated for his subversive connection to the old, living world, a prisoner makes the most of his isolation in this captivating allegorical tale about tyranny, conviction, and the enduring power of imagination. Upon setting out for a morning walk with his knobby stick in...- $14.95
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Vendor: Paul Antony Jones
Genesis
After an alien invasion devastates humanity, a battered group of survivors huddles in a remote outpost, fighting to endure in a now-hostile world. Resources are dwindling, and internal power struggles threaten to tear apart the fragile last vestige of human society.Emily Baxter remains haunted...- $14.95
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Vendor: Keith Lee Morris
Travelers Rest
A chilling fable about a family marooned in a snowbound town whose grievous history intrudes on the dreamlike present. The Addisons -- Julia and Tonio, ten-year-old Dewey, and derelict Uncle Robbie -- are driving home, cross-country, after collecting Robbie from yet another trip to...- $15.99
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Vendor: Mark Everglade
Song of Kitaba
What if the world knew your deepest secrets? What if the government had a monopoly on your thoughts?In the City of Catonis, everything you think is written across giant screens for public scrutiny, and revolution can only be cloaked with meditation. Things are the...- $17.24
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Vendor: Roger Collins
Cities of Glass
In a future Golden Age of Transparency Fitima Anueche, an Afro-Caribbean astrophysicist, battles mysterious outbreaks of anarchy that threaten her world. Upon discovering the cause of the chaos that eventually endangers her mother, Fitima joins the boss she'd suspected of misconduct and together they...- $17.24
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Vendor: Alexis Schaitkin
Elsewhere
Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up...- $33.99
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Vendor: A. G. Pasquella
Welcome to the Weird America: Three Novellas
A.G. Pasquella's Welcome to the Weird America brings together three of his brilliant, fabulist novellas, each of which is filled with strange language and extraordinary surprises. In Why Not a Spider Monkey Jesus?, written like a comic-book adventure without the images, a talking chimpanzee...- $22.00
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Vendor: Jo Harkin
Tell Me an Ending
Named a Best Science Fiction Book of 2022 by The New York Times "Sharply, beautifully written." --The New York Times Book Review "Intriguing, frightening, witty, and humane." --The Wall Street Journal Black Mirror meets Severence in this thrilling speculative novel about a tech company...- $18.99
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Vendor: Stephen Markley
The Deluge
A New York Times Notable Book "This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting." --Stephen King From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and...- $32.50
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Vendor: Kashana Cauley
The Survivalists
"A great and engrossing read, Kashana humanizes a way of life that is often made fun of and makes the reader understand why someone would go to such great lengths to prepare for the future, so much so she almost sold me on those...- $24.99
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The Survivalists
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Vendor: Anne K. Yoder
The Enhancers
THE ENHANCERS is a polyvocal novel that follows three teenage friends coming of age in a techno-pharmaceutical society. Hannah is born and raised in a town whose industry revolves around Lumena Corp., maker of the supplement Valedictorian. When Hannah and her friends start taking...- $20.00
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All About Earthlings: The Irreverent Musings of an Extraterrestrial Envoy
Aldous Huxley wrote: "If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion." One might infer from this remark that seeing ourselves as others see us - and acknowledging our very obvious imperfections...- $18.95
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Run from the Dead: Book 1
Can't fight the dead? Then RUN...The dead are rising and violently attacking people on the streets of the UK. Driven by an insatiable hunger for flesh, they attack anyone who dares to go out.Anna is trapped as the zombie apocalypse rages outside her front...- $11.99
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Last Days of Pompeii: Volume 1, Augurs
Manchester. An hourly paid lecturer in a university art school writes fiction and poetry. He steals tea bags, screws and other useful items to get by. As he struggles with tiredness, depression and the quality of his writing output, he experiences nightmares about his...- $12.99
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Last Light Falling - The Covenant, Book I
The end is only the beginning - Fifteen-year-old Arena Power blindly accepts her destiny in a world filled with tragedy, chaos, and a lingering wickedness that will tempt every man's soul until the last days on Earth. Set in the United States in the...- $16.95
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The Trellis
Debbie Peck is a conflict mediator struggling to make ends meet in Chicago's near future. Conflict is everywhere, but jobs are scarce, so when her headhunter calls about an open position at the prestigious Jefferson Trellis, she jumps at the opportunity. She lands right...- $14.99
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Zoon Garden: The Decline of a Nation
Jordan O'Donnell's debut novel strikes the heart of the American public. This timely allegory and poignant social critique tells the story of Clarendon Zoo and the dogmatic wolf and sheep tribes that trigger its downfall. When the mysterious zookeeper of Clarendon Zoo grants his...- $15.99
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Pretty Lies
The truth isn't treason. The Northern Unity has always been safe. When the Enlightened Society took over what was known of the United States of America, they made the wellbeing of the people their top priority. Safety and knowledge are the powers that hold...- $19.99
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Gaymerica
It's 2047. The United States has split into two nations. One, America, is a traditionalist Christian nation dedicated to the practices of Capitalism, evangelical Christianity, and heterosexism. The other, the Western States, is the bastard secessionist spawn of America inhabiting the Left coast of...- $13.00
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Fiction Dystopian Books
Fiction dystopian books have captured the imagination of readers for decades. These captivating works of literature often present a bleak and futuristic world where society has been detrimentally transformed by various factors such as governments, technologies, or natural disasters. Dystopian fiction serves as a cautionary tale, exploring themes of oppressive regimes, loss of personal freedoms, and the potential consequences of unchecked power.
One of the key elements of dystopian fiction is the creation of a plausible and detailed world that is vastly different from our own. Authors meticulously craft these dystopian societies, introducing readers to new rules, systems, and hierarchies. The settings can range from desolate wastelands to highly controlled utopias, each with its own challenges and pitfalls.
There is a wide range of dystopian fiction available, but one popular subgenre within this category is dystopian novels in the form of books collections. These collections often consist of multiple books that are interconnected either through a shared world or thematic elements. They provide readers with a deeper exploration of the dystopian concept, allowing for more complex storylines and character development.
Within the fiction dystopian book collections, readers may find a variety of themes and narratives. Some collections focus on political dystopias, where authoritarian regimes oppress their citizens and control every aspect of their lives. Others may explore environmental dystopias, where the destruction of nature has led to catastrophic consequences. Additionally, technological dystopias examine the potential dangers of advanced technology and its impact on society.
Several notable authors have contributed to the world of fiction dystopian book collections, each bringing their own unique perspective to the genre. Authors such as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood, Suzanne Collins, and Ray Bradbury have all made significant contributions with their works. These authors have captivated readers with their thought-provoking narratives and vivid portrayals of dystopian worlds.
What sets fiction dystopian book collections apart from standalone novels is their ability to fully immerse readers in the complexities of their dystopian settings. With multiple books to explore, readers can delve deeper into the various aspects of these dystopias, gaining a more comprehensive understanding of the world and the characters that inhabit it. Whether readers are drawn to the exploration of social justice, political corruption, or the human spirit in the face of adversity, fiction dystopian book collections provide a rich and thought-provoking reading experience.
Popular Fiction Dystopian Books
Fiction dystopian books have captured the imagination of readers worldwide with their dark and often chilling depiction of a future world. These books present an alternative reality where society is in a state of upheaval, usually under the control of a powerful totalitarian regime or facing the consequences of a catastrophic event. In this article, we will explore some of the popular books that have gained recognition and acclaim within the genre of fiction dystopian books.1. "1984" by George Orwell: Considered a classic in the genre, "1984" depicts a totalitarian society ruled by the Party, led by the enigmatic Big Brother. The novel's protagonist, Winston Smith, struggles against the oppressive regime while trying to preserve his own individuality and freedom of thought. Orwell's novel serves as a warning about the dangers of excessive government control and surveillance, leaving readers questioning the fragility of their own freedom.
2. "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley: Huxley's seminal work presents a society that has achieved stability and happiness through genetic engineering, conditioning, and the use of drugs. However, this apparent utopia masks a society devoid of individuality and meaningful connections. The book explores themes of the loss of personal freedom, the dangers of a consumerist culture, and the power of knowledge and individuality.
3. "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins: This young adult trilogy took the dystopian genre by storm, offering a thrilling and action-packed narrative set in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem. The story follows Katniss Everdeen as she becomes a symbol of resistance against the tyrannical Capitol, which forces children to participate in a televised fight to the death called "The Hunger Games." Collins successfully blends elements of dystopia, adventure, and social commentary in her captivating and thought-provoking series.
4. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury: In Bradbury's dystopian novel, a future society outlaws books and burns them to suppress independent thought and intellectualism. The protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman whose role is to burn books but becomes disenchanted with the system and seeks to preserve knowledge. This thought-provoking book warns about the dangers of censorship and the importance of literature and critical thinking in society.
5. "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood: This chilling novel portrays a future society called Gilead, where women are subjugated, deprived of their freedoms, and reduced to reproductive vessels. The story follows Offred, a "handmaid," as she navigates the oppressive regime while clinging to memories of her past life. Atwood's book raises important questions about women's rights, reproductive autonomy, and the abuse of power.
These popular fiction dystopian books have resonated deeply with readers due to their captivating narratives and thought-provoking themes. They serve as cautionary tales, reminding us to reflect on the vulnerability of our own societies and the importance of individuality, freedom, and social justice. Whether they inspire a sense of fear or a renewed commitment to safeguarding our future, these books have undoubtedly left a lasting impact on the literary world and popular culture.

