Dystopia genre books (169)


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Letter to Survivors

Letter to Survivors by Gebe EN

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Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
A haunting and darkly funny post-apocalyptic graphic novel that follows an unusual postal worker on his very bizarre mail route. Amid the blasted rubble of a once-perfect suburb, a hazmat-suited postman delivers the mail, aloud. He shouts his letters down a vent to the bunker-bound family below. They describe the family's prosperous past life, and then get stranger and stranger... Drawn by the famed cartoonish and Charlie Hebdo contributor Gébé, and never before available in English, Letter to Survivors is a blackhearted delight, a scathing, impassioned send-up of consumerist excess and nuclea... continue

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Lexicon by Max Barry EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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Students harness the hidden power of language to manipulate the mind and learn to break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. The very best will graduate as "poets," adept wielders of language who belong to a nameless organization that is as influential as it is secretive.

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Light Bringer

Light Bringer by Pierce Brown EN

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! Darrow returns as Pierce Brown's New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age. The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. Marooned far from home after a devastating defeat on the battlefields of Mercury, Darrow longs to return to his wife and sovereign, Virginia, to defend Mars from its bloodthirsty would-be conqueror - Lysander. Lysander longs to destroy the... continue

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Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin EN

Rating: 4 (10 votes)
Description:
A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Ohio. They're following you. They're everywhere now. They're us. In Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, "kentukis" have gone viral across the globe. They're little mechanical stuffed animals that have cameras for eyes, wheels for feet, and are connected to an anonymous global server. Owners of kentukis hav... continue

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M for Amnesia

M for Amnesia by Anne-Marie Reuter EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Luxembourg flag Luxembourg
Description:
From the back of the book: "What is left when memory stops? Do memories change over time? Is memory as a process about to change in our world?"

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MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
A conclusion to the trilogy that includes Oryx and Crake finds Toby and Ren returning to the MaddAddamite cob house after rescuing Amanda and assuming the duties of the Craker's religious overseers while Zeb searches for the founder of the pacifist green religion he left years earlier.

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Memory of Water : A Novel by Emmi Itäranta EN

Rating: 4 (7 votes)
Country: Europe / Finland flag Finland
Description:
An amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin. Global warming has changed the world’s geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. In this far north place, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like her father, a position that holds great responsibility and great secrets. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father te... continue


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Metronome by Tom Watson EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award'Imagined with an impressively detailed three-dimensional solidity' Sunday Times'I loved it ... You could feel the chill of the wind ... Fantastic; it's a great book' Sara Cox, BBC Two 'Between the Covers''Stylish and thoughtful ... The eerie claustrophobia of the setting will stay with the reader for a long while.' Literary Review 'Unputdownable ... An extraordinary book ... as insightful and as premonitory as Orwell's 1984' Litro___________________________________________________Not all that is hidd... continue

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Millennium People

Millennium People by J. G. Ballard EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
In this novel, an explosion at Heathrow takes the life of psychologist David Markham's ex-wife. In response, he infiltrates the antigovernment group responsible for the bombing--and begins to fall under its sway.--"Library Journal."