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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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Vendor: William Holloway
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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Vendor: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
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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Vendor: Alison Stine
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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Vendor: Emily Brewes
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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Vendor: Michael Landweber
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: David Koepp
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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Vendor: Michael D. O'Brien
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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Vendor: Pierce Brown
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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Vendor: Alex McElroy
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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Vendor: Jayne Cowie
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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Vendor: Max Barry
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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Vendor: Pierce Brown
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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Vendor: John Lanchester
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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Vendor: Tanya Bird
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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Vendor: Hugh Howey
The Silo Series Boxed Set: Wool, Shift, Dust, and Silo Stories
For the first time ever, The Silo Saga Omnibus brings together all of the work in Hugh Howey's ground-breaking, best-selling, acclaimed series, including the individual novels Wool, Shift, and Dust, as well as original essays by the author, and a bonus chapbook of short...- $60.00
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Vendor: Sarah Pinsker
A Song for a New Day
WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD After a global pandemic makes public gatherings illegal and concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music--and for one chance at human connection. In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large...- $17.00
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Vendor: Maria Dahvana Headley
The Mere Wife
New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia as two mothers--a housewife and a battle-hardened veteran--fight to protect those they love in The Mere Wife. This modern fantasy tale transports you...- $19.00
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Vendor: L. T. World
For the Sake of Freedom
The incurable nature of Orbis City, the last civilization on Earth, drove the people to near extinction. Dr. Hartford, leader of the mysterious Sigmund Project, hopes to cure Orbis of its fruitless vanity. He is willing to do anything to preserve the human race,...- $19.95
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Vendor: Thea Von Harbou
Metropolis
This city of the future encompasses two worlds: that of the hedonistic ruling class and that of a segregated subculture, toilers in a mechanized underworld who labor to provide the rich with their pleasures. When a charismatic leader arises, she seeks a savior to...- $8.95
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Vendor: C. Robert Cargill
Sea of Rust
A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic "robot western" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.It's been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of...- $18.99
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Vendor: Ursula K. Le Guin
The Eye of the Heron
From multi-award-winning, literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin comes a speculative fiction classic, The Eye of the Heron. In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups--the farmers of Shantih and the City dwellers--live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems,...- $15.99
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Vendor: Calder Szewczak
The Offset
It is your eighteenth birthday and one of your parents must die. You are the one who decides. Who do you pick? In a dying world, the Offset ceremony has been introduced to counteract and discourage procreation. It is a rule that is simultaneously...- $14.99
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Vendor: John Joseph Adams
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
With stories from George R.R. Martin (author of Game of Thrones), Gene Wolf, Carol Emshwiller, Stephen King, and more! "I can't help but give this collection the highest recommendation. I think this will be a cornerstone for most reader's shelves."--SFF World From the Book...- $16.99
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Vendor: George Saunders
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.Welcome to Inner Horner, a nation so small it can only accommodate...- $16.00
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Vendor: Samuel R. Delany
Nova
Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor of the 32nd century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel,...- $16.00
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Vendor: Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale: Introduction by Valerie Martin
One of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time: A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution--from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (The New York Times). - Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth...- $28.00
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Vendor: Claire Vaye Watkins
Gold Fame Citrus
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vanity Fair, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, The Atlantic, Refinery 29, Men's Journal, Ploughshares, Lit Hub, Book Riot, Los Angeles Magazine, Powells, BookPage and Kirkus Reviews The much-anticipated first novel...- $17.00
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Vox
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER - ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S AND SHEREADS' BOOKS TO READ AFTER THE HANDMAID'S TALE" An] electrifying debut."--O, The Oprah Magazine "The real-life parallels will make you shiver."--Cosmopolitan Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox...- $18.00
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Vendor: Jasper Fforde
Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron
The New York Times bestseller hailed as "a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness" (The Washington Post) from the author of the Thursday Next series and Red Side Story. Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited...- $18.00
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Vendor: Saleema Nawaz
Songs for the End of the World
An enthralling, hopeful novel about the power of human connection in a time of crisis, as the bonds of love, family, and duty are tested. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. How quickly he'd forgotten a fundamental truth: the closer you got to the heart of a calamity,...- $15.95
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Vendor: Yevgeny Zamyatin
We
This classic Russian dystopian novel inspired George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and many other science fiction writers, and now this reprint of the original 1924 translation of We is available from Dover. Set in a future under a unified totalitarian state, in a society ruled...- $8.00
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Vendor: Drew Magary
The Postmortal
- Finalist for the Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke Awards - The gripping first novel by Drew Magary, author of The Hike and The Night the Lights Went Out "An exciting page turner. . . . Drew Magary is an excellent writer....- $18.00
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Vendor: Yevgeny Zamyatin
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We is one of the great classics of dystopian fiction. Experimental and provocative in both style and content, it was the first major literary work to be banned in the Soviet Union. This critical edition features an entirely new annotated translation,...- $20.50
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Vendor: Margaret Atwood
The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx & Crake/The Year of the Flood/MaddAddam
A boxed set (three trade paperbacks) of the internationally celebrated speculative fiction trilogy from one of the most visionary authors of our time, Margaret Atwood. Across three stunning novels--Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and Maddaddam--the best-selling, Booker Prize-winning novelist projects us...- $50.90
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Vendor: Laura Thalassa
The Queen of All That Dies (The Fallen World Book 1)
In the future, the world is at war.For the last decade, King Lazuli of the Eastern Empire has systematically taken over the world. No one knows much about him other than a series of impossible facts: he cannot die, he has not aged since...- $16.99
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Vendor: Ross Clark
The Denial: A satirical novel of climate change
Britain in the near future. A campaign to cut carbon emissions to zero is beginning to bite. Power cuts have become a regular feature of life and standards of living have fallen sharply for all but a small elite of climate influencers, who are...- $10.99
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Vendor: Glenn Beck
Agenda 21
A new postapocalyptic thriller from #1 bestselling author Glenn Beck. HOW MUCH WOULD YOU RISK TO BE FREE? Emmeline and her family live in a place that just a generation ago was called America. Now, it's simply known as "the Republic." There is no...- $9.99
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Make Room! Make Room!: The Classic Novel of an Overpopulated Future
The world is crowded. Far too crowded. Its starving billions live on lentils, soya beans, and --if they're lucky--the odd starving rat. In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhabitants, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and...- $17.99
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Black Village
Tassili, Goodmann, and Myriam. Two men and a woman dressed in rags--former poets, and former members of a dystopian military service--walk the bardo, the dark afterlife between death and rebirth. The road is monotonous and seemingly endless. To pass the time, they decide to...- $14.95
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Vendor: Rawles
Founders: A Novel of the Coming Collapse
From the author of the instant New York Times bestseller Survivors, comes its follow-up: another lightening-paced thriller about survival in America after an apocalyptic socioeconomic crash.The world as we know it is gone. It's the near future, and thanks to a perfect storm of...- $16.99
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When the Moon Whispers, First Chronicle
Where to begin?Betrayal.When the second moon came, women lost their minds. They had to be quarantined for everyone's safety.I promised to join the others in Quarantine as a sign of solidarity and my trust in the process. It was because of my reassurances that...- $14.99
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World Made by Hand
In The Long Emergency celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production, combined with climate change, had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. In World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler...- $16.00
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Seeing
"The clarity and compassion of [Saramago's] vision make Seeing worthy of its name." --Washington Post "I have never read a novel that gets so many details of the political behavior that we for some reason insist on calling 'organized' so hilariously and grimly right."...- $15.99
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Underground Airlines
The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened? A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Hudson Bookseller,...- $15.99
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Dishonored: The Corroded Man
A strange, shrouded figure appears in Dunwall, seeming to possess powers once wielded by the assassin known as Daud. Faced with the possibility that their deadliest foe has returned, Emily and Corvo plunge headlong into a life-and-death race against time. If they fail to...- $11.99
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The New Hunger
"In rich, evocative prose, Marion transports his readers back into the postapocalyptic parable he first brought to life--or death--in his brilliant debut Warm Bodies." --Library Journal (starred review) "Refreshingly unique...I love this novella." --LitStack The must-read prequel to the "highly original" (The Seattle Times)...- $16.99
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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.

