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The Resisters
The moving story of one family struggling to maintain their humanity in circumstances that threaten their every value--from the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon. - "Intricately imagined ... [It] grows directly out of the soil of our current political moment."...- $16.95
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Until We Fall
Isla, a Black, transgender girl, is just an ordinary student when government forces arrest her and her teacher for revolutionary activity. This action turns Isla into an activist working for social justice. What follows is an exhilarating ride marked by danger, close calls, and...- $17.99
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Hummingbird Salamander
From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things. "Jane Smith"--not her real name--receives an envelope that contains a note from a woman she doesn't know and a key to an anonymous...- $18.00
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more...- $5.95
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We
A collectible hardcover centennial edition of the exhilarating Russian dystopian novel of totalitarian mass surveillance that inspired George Orwell's 1984, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen A Penguin Vitae Edition In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight...- $27.00
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The Trials of Koli
"Absorbing, stunning, and emotionally rich." --LocusThe journey through M. R. Carey's "immersive, impeccably rendered world" (Kirkus) -- a world in which nature has turned against us -- continues in The Trials of Koli, book two of the Rampart Trilogy.The earth wants to swallow us...- $16.99
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Autumn: Dawn
THE WORLD IS DEAD!Two months ago, billions of people were killed by a deadly germ. Days later, they rose up again in massive numbers. Since then, cities worldwide have become rat-infested, germ-filled hellholes, ruled by the living dead.WELCOME TO LONDONA group of survivors are...- $19.99
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
A cautionary tale of the horrors that can ensue when man experiments with nature, from the father of science fiction, H. G. Wells. A lonely island in the Pacific. The sinister scientist who rules it. And the strange beings who dwell there.... This is...- $4.95
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Death Fugue
Banned in China for its taboo allusions to the Tiananmen Square massacre, Sheng Keyi's Death Fugue is a lyrical and explosive dystopian satire that imagines a world of manufactured existence, the erasure of personal freedom, and the perils of governmental control.One morning a nine-story...- $19.00
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Vendor: George Orwell
Animal Farm
A beautiful new edition of George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." A group of farm animals rebel against their drunken, abusive owner, and set out to create a utopia of equality....- $12.99
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Firebreak
One young woman faces down an all-powerful corporation in this "profound...resonant" (NPR), all-too-near future science fiction debut that reads like a refreshing take on Ready Player One, with a heavy dose of Black Mirror.Ready Player One meets Cyperpunk 2077 in this eerily familiar future....- $17.99
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From the Caves
*WINNER of the 2021 Foreword Indie Book Award in Literature*Environmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child coming of age; Tie, pregnant and grieving; Mark, a young man poised to assume primacy; and Teller, an elder,...- $14.95
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Vendor: Yoon Ha Lee
Phoenix Extravagant
The new blockbuster original fantasy work from Nebula, Hugo and Clarke award nominated author Yoon Ha Lee! Dragons. Art. Revolution. Gyen Jebi isn't a fighter, or a subversive. They just want to paint. One day they're jobless and desperate; the next, Jebi finds themself...- $24.99
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Vendor: Nick Harkaway
The Gone-Away World
A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world. "A flat-out ferociously good novel.... Reads like a surrealist smashup of Pynchon and Pratchett, Vonnegut...- $19.00
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Recruitment: The Resistance Trilogy
In the year 2042, in the middle of a brutal foreign invasion, Kress and her friends are all that's left of their isolated mountain town. When Kress and the other seventeen-year-olds are taken away by the Recruiters to aid in the fight against the...- $15.00
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The Princess Games: A young adult dystopian romance
Zea's adventure continues in the page-turning sequel to The Princess Trials.The stakes are higher and the competition more brutal in round two of the Princess Trials. Zea's relationship with Prince Kevon intensifies, and she must choose between the prince and the rebel who holds...- $20.24
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Goldilocks
A gripping science fiction thriller where five women task themselves with ensuring the survival of the human race--if you mixed ". . .The Martian and The Handmaid's Tale, this sci-fi novel would be the incredible result" (Book Riot). "Best of 2020" -Library Journal "Best...- $16.99
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Vendor: William F. Nolan
Logan's Run: Vintage Movie Classics
The bestselling dystopian novel that inspired the 1970s science-fiction classic starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter, and Richard Jordan. In 2116, it is against the law to live beyond the age of twenty-one years. When the crystal flower in the palm of your hand turns...- $17.00
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Chastely Bitten
Once upon a time, humankind ruled the world while lycans and vampires lived in secret. This is no longer that time. Juliet It is my duty to obey, to give my body and blood to a vampire master until he no longer has use...- $11.99
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Vendor: Dani Hoots
Revenge
A swashbuckling upper YA/NA LGBTQ+ sci-fi western you don't want to miss!It has been three years since Elvira "Ellie" Ryder was betrayed by her ex-boyfriend Cor, which caused the destruction of her people by invaders from a different Zone. Now she will do anything...- $30.99
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Vendor: Robert Evans
After the Revolution
A chronicle of serendipitous alliances in a dystopia that's right around the corner. What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an edge-of-your-seat answer to that question. In the year 2070, twenty years after a civil war and...- $19.00
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Vendor: Jean Hegland
Into the Forest
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home.Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles...- $17.00
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Vendor: Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale Deluxe Edition
This beautiful edition of Margaret Atwood's seminal work of speculative fiction features a leatherette cover, gilt edging, and ribbon marker--a perfect gift for book lovers and fans of the Hulu series. The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will...- $25.00
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The Princess Trials: A young adult dystopian romance
Thirty young women. A handsome prince. A battle to the deathWater is scarce. Deserts have taken over the land. Nuclear war has devastated humanity. Humans live in walled super cities to keep out the irradiated. The land that was formerly known as America is...- $18.24
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Vendor: Philip K. Dick
Radio Free Albemuth
A philosophical science fiction novel from Hugo Award-winning author Philip K. Dick, Radio Free Albemuth is a visionary alternate history of a dystopian United States, full of the conspiracy theories and religious themes that became the foundation for his celebrated VALIS trilogy.It is the...- $15.99
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Vendor: Rita Indiana
Tentacle
Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a voodoo prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean - and humanity - from disaster. But first she...- $17.95
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Vendor: George Orwell
1984 And Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-Four, Often Published as 1984, is a Dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell published in June 1949, whose themes centre on the risks of government overreach, totalitarianism and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviours within society. The novel is set in...- $27.99
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Vendor: Suzette Haden Elgin
Native Tongue
Originally published in 1984, this dystopian trilogy--"a pioneering feminist experiment"--is a testament to the power of language and women's collective action (Literary Hub). In 2205, the 19th Amendment has long been repealed and women are only valued for their utility. The Earth's economy depends...- $17.95
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Vendor: Diane Cook
The New Wilderness
A Washington Post, NPR, and Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year - Shortlisted for the Booker Prize"More than timely, the novel feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced -- a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity. But at its core, The New...- $27.99
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Vendor: Tom Galvin
The Auction
In the year 2050, America is booming-but there's a dark side when prosperity is based on the buying and selling of the next generation's future, as Sasha Cross is about to find out.To the world, Sasha is young, famous, and the symbol of what's...- $27.95
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Vendor: Adam Marsh
Mariner's Wake
Kara Nkosi is a Mariner-sworn to protect those of her blood and heart, sworn to protect the sea. Generations ago, her people escaped starvation and oppression on stolen boats, only to find themselves in the midst of increasingly violent storms, rising waters, and international...- $27.99
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The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle
With The Abyssal Plain, Holloway and Talley have managed to transform the Cthulhu Mythos into something with a more modern flavor, drawing not just from the well of cosmic horror, but from technothrillers, survival horror, and splatterpunk, with just a dash of the lost...- $18.95
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Vendor: Hari Kunzru
Red Pill
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth from the widely acclaimed author of White Tears After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of...- $16.00
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Brotherhood
WINNER of the French Voices Grand Prize, Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and Grand Prix du Roman M tis Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal authority....- $17.00
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Road Out of Winter: An Apocalyptic Thriller
2021 winner of the Philip K. Dick AwardA 2020 The Rumpus Book Club Selection"Blends a rural thriller and speculative realism into what could be called dystopian noir.... Profoundly moving."--Library Journal, starred reviewIn an endless winter, she carries seeds of hopeWylodine comes from a world...- $17.99
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Vendor: Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments--in the gated community of Consilience, residents who sign a contract will get a job and a lovely house for six months of the year...if they serve as inmates in the Positron prison system...- $17.95
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Morte
After the "war with no name" a cat assassin searches for his lost love in Repino's strange, moving sci-fi epic that channels both Homeward Bound and A Canticle for Leibowitz. The "war with no name" has begun, with human extinction as its goal. The...- $9.99
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The Doomsday Book of Fairy Tales
Twenty-five years after humanity's narrow escape from climate collapse, Jesse Vanderchuck meets a talking dog named Doggo. Together, they leave the Underground to find Jesse's sister and a new life. Throughout, Jesse weaves a series of fantastic fairy tales from threads of memory.Author: Emily...- $17.99
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The Damage Done
For fans of Ben Winters and Sarah Pinsker, this mind-bending and thought-provoking novel pushes the limits of fiction, questioning the violence sewn into our DNA. Violence is a thing of the past--but do new horrors lie in wait? Imagine a world devoid of violence--a...- $27.99
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Vendor: Dave Eggers
The Every
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world's largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet's dominant ecommerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous--and, oddly enough, most beloved--monopoly ever known: the...- $30.00
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Aurora: A Summer Beach Read
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM NETFLIX AND ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR KATHRYN BIGELOW"Fantastic story, a real page-turner. Impossible to put down." - Stephen KingFrom the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair of...- $27.99
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Father Elijah: An Apocalypse
Michael O'Brien presents a thrilling apocalyptic novel about the condition of the Roman Catholic Church at the end of time. It explores the state of the modern world, and the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary religious scene, by taking his central character, Father...- $21.95
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Dark Age
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold. "Brown's plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him...- $29.99
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The Atmospherians
"Darkly funny and glitteringly satirical, The Atmospherians unforgettably takes aim at wokeness, wellness, and toxic masculinity." --Esquire This "edgy, addictive" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) satire about two best friends who form The Atmosphere--a cult designed to reform problematic men--is "a book to be devoured"...- $18.00
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Curfew
Think The Handmaid's Tale but with the women in charge, set in a world where all men are electronically tagged and placed under strict curfew, and the murder investigation threatening to undo it all. Imagine a near-future Britain in which women dominate workplaces, public...- $17.00
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Providence
From the ingenious author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon a brilliant work of science fiction that tells the intimate tale of four people facing their most desperate hour--alone, together, at the edge of the universe. "An astonishing novel! Providence is Philip K. Dick and...- $17.00
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Iron Gold
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In the epic next chapter of the Red Rising Saga, the #1 bestselling author of Morning Star pushes the boundaries of one of the boldest series in fiction. "Mature science fiction existing within the frame of blazing space opera...- $29.99
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The Wall
In this taut, dystopian tale, an island nation ravaged by the Change has built an enormous concrete barrier around its coastline--the Wall. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls trapped...- $16.95
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We
We (1924) is a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Written between 1920 and 1921, the novel reflects its author's growing disillusionment with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Russian Civil War. Smuggled out of the country, the manuscript was translated into...- $14.99
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Defender of Crowns
Fighter. Misfit. Heart thief.How long can Chadora's throne sit empty? That is the question on everyone's mind as they wait for the rightful heir to return for his crown. Patience is not Eda's strong suit, and she has an idea to speed things along...- $15.99
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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.

