Dystopia genre books (169)
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Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky EN
EnglandDescription:
Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth. Stefan Advani - rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor - bears witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. ... continue
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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
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Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky EN
Description:
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home. Following their ancestors' star maps, they discovered the greatest treasure of a past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilizations are on a collision course and must fight to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?
Bulgaria25.
Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh EN
WalesDescription:
GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTSFrom the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Water Cure comes a chilling new feminist fable based on the true story of an unsolved mystery . . .'A shimmering fever-dream of a novel' Telegraph'A dreamy sapphic romp' The Times'Gauzy [and] gripping, a qu[Bokinfo].
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Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
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 standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.”—NPR (Best Books of the Year) He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wage... continue
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De geheugenpolitie by Yoko Ogawa NL
JapanDescription:
De bewoners van een eiland krijgen het steeds lastiger als steeds meer zaken vanwege staatswege verdwijnen.
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De stad der blinden by José Saramago NL
PortugalDescription:
Een rij auto’s staat te wachten voor een rood stoplicht. Als het licht eindelijkop groen springt, trekt de eerste auto niet op, tot groeiend ongenoegen vande automobilisten erachter. Als ze het portier opentrekken, treffen ze eenwanhopige bestuurder aan, die alleen maar kan uitbrengen dat hij van hetene op het andere moment blind is geworden.
Deze openingsscène is de katalysator van een reeks verbijsterendegebeurtenissen, die algauw apocalyptische vormen aanneemt. Deblindheid blijkt besmettelijk: al snel ziet een groot gedeelte van de bevolkingvan Lissabon niets meer. Alle slac... continue
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Death in Spring : A Novel by Mercè Rodoreda EN
SpainDescription:
Lushly surreal, Rodoreda's final novel is a mythological depiction of a city ruled by rituals--almost like Franco's Spain.
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Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
For fans of David Cronenberg's films and lovers of Kafka, this gaucho-punk, sci-fi novel set in 2197 offers an explosive interpretation of an ultra-capitalistic society on the brink of climate collapse. The protagonist of this story has no understanding of the words “winter”, "cold”, or "snow" because he has never experienced the phenomena they describe. We find ourselves in Victorica, a province of La Pampa, Argentina, some time after 2197 – the year in which the last of the Antarctic icecaps melted and an unprecedented climate catastrophe ensued, radically transforming the landscape of the r... continue