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We Are Unprepared
Meg Little Reilly places a young couple in harm's way--both literally and emotionally--as they face a cataclysmic storm that threatens to decimate their Vermont town, and the Eastern Seaboard in her penetrating debut novel, WE ARE UNPREPARED.Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to...- $15.99
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When a Robot Decides to Die and Other Stories
A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer; a suicidal robot; a romantic necrophiliac; and an archaeologist who feeds the perverse desires of aficionados of the apocalypse--Francisco Garc僘 Gonzalez's stories map out literary and metafictional approaches to the sci-fi universe in ways that echo the humor...- $19.95
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Vendor: Glenn Beck
Agenda 21: Into the Shadows
The sequel to Agenda 21--which Brad Thor called "a brilliantly written, exhilarating, pulse-pounding adventure"--from #1 New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck. It was once named America, but now it is just "the Republic." Following the worldwide implementation of...- $9.99
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The Greater Union
A founding member of the Sin Vegas Union, Hector Contreras was a child when Earth was commandeered by the Lorians. Along with those left, he spent the next fifty years fighting their extraterrestrial adversaries. For his reward, Hector helped create one of the few...- $19.95
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The Wild West: A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller
Graham's Resolution continues with the 6th installment, The Wild West, and this time arrows fly!For fans of Lee Child and James Patterson, a medical thriller that hits too close to home by USA Today bestselling author A. R. Shaw.Graham Morgan's brief respite is over...- $14.99
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Tear Down the Throne
Bestselling author Jennifer Estep continues her Gargoyle Queen epic fantasy series where magic reigns, alliances are tested, and a dangerous attraction could tear down a throne. . .Crown princess. Clever spy. Powerful mind magier. Gemma Ripley of Andvari is all those things--and determined to...- $16.99
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The Dreamers
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles. "Stunning."--Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven - "A...- $17.00
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The Bees
The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death.Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work...- $16.99
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How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories
How to Date a Flying Mexican is a collection of stories derived from Chicano and Mexican culture but ranging through fascinating literary worlds of magical realism, fairy tales, fables, and dystopian futures. Many of Daniel A. Olivas's characters confront--both directly and obliquely-- questions of...- $22.00
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Vendor: Sandrine Collette
The Forests
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDWinner of the 2020 Grand Prix RTL-Lire, a powerful novel about a man's desperate quest to bring new life to a desolate world.Nobody wanted Corentin. Not his father, who flees as soon he can, nor the women in...- $18.00
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Vendor: Mira Grant
Feed
Feed is an electrifying and critically acclaimed novel of a world a half-step from our own that the New York Times calls "Astonishing" -- a novel of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all -- from New York...- $10.99
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36 Streets
Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this Ditmar and Aurealis award-winning, fast-paced, intelligent, action-driven cyberpunk, probing questions of memory, identity and the power of narratives. Lin 'The Silent One' Vu is a gangster in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, living in the steaming,...- $15.95
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Vendor: Sophie Mackintosh
Blue Ticket
From the author of the Booker Prize longlisted novel The Water Cure comes another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: What if the life you're given is the wrong one?"Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell's 1984 or Atwood's...- $16.00
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Vendor: Caroline Hardaker
Composite Creatures
How close would you hold those you love, when the end comes? In a society where self-preservation is as much an art as a science, Norah and Arthur are learning how to co-exist in their new little world. Though they hardly know each other,...- $14.99
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Vendor: Victoria Hetherington
Autonomy
After being detained at the border of the New Canadian Protectorate, university counsellor Slaton meets an AI, Julian, who works interviewing detainees at the Canadian/American border. As a plague ravages the planet, they encounter a strange bubble of super-rich elite, whose ploy for immortality...- $19.99
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Vendor: M. R. Carey
The Fall of Koli
M. R. Carey's Rampart trilogy is "an epic post-apocalyptic fable" (Kirkus) like no other, set in a world where nature has turned against us. Now, in the unforgettable final chapter, the world that was lost comes back to haunt those who have survived-and Koli's...- $17.99
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Vendor: Nevil Shute
On the Beach
Nevil Shute's most powerful novel--a bestseller for decades after its 1957 publication--is an unforgettable vision of a post-apocalyptic world. After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is...- $18.00
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Vendor: Sara Foster
The Hush
Everything can change in a heartbeat ...The pulse-pounding new thriller from the bestselling author of You Don't Know MeLainey's friend Ellis is missing. And she's not the only one.In the six months since the first case of a terrifying new epidemic--when a healthy baby...- $26.99
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Vendor: P. D. James
The Children of Men
A modern science fiction classic from an acclaimed bestselling author: The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. "A book of such accelerating tension that the pages seem to turn faster as one moves along."...- $18.00
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Vendor: Octavia E. Butler
Adulthood Rites
From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower: After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or is doomed to...- $21.99
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Vendor: M. Steven
Ill Behavior
Notorious Los Angeles graffiti writer, SOBR, finds himself wanted for a murder he did not commit. With the help of a childhood friend, an LAPD Magistrate Inquirer, SOBR sets out to clear his graffiti name while haunted by a foretelling of his impending death....- $18.95
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Vendor: Lauren Beukes
Afterland
Children of Men meets The Handmaid's Tale in this "smartly written" and "splendid" thriller about how far a mother will go to protect her son from a hostile world transformed by the absence of men (Stephen King). Most of the men are dead. Three...- $16.99
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Vendor: Jeff VanderMeer
The Strange Bird: A Borne Story
The Strange Bird--from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer--expands and weaves deeply into the world of his "thorough marvel"* of a novel, Borne. The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory--she is part bird, part human, part many...- $12.00
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Vendor: Megan Angelo
Followers
This dark, pitch-perfect novel about our dependence on technology for validation and human connection is as addictive as social media itself." --People A TIME AND NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY PEOPLE MAGAZINE - THESKIMM - KATIE COURIC'S "WAKE UP CALL" - ENTERTAINMENT...- $17.99
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Vendor: Gish Jen
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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Vendor: Nicole Zelniker
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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Vendor: Jeff VanderMeer
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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Vendor: H. G. Wells
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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Vendor: Yevgeny Zamyatin
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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Vendor: M. R. Carey
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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Vendor: David Moody
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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Vendor: Sheng Keyi
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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Vendor: Nicole Kornher-Stace
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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Vendor: Thea Prieto
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: 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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Vendor: K. a. Riley
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

