Dystopian World

It is 2085, and Truckee Wallace, a factory worker in Crunchtown 407 (formerly Little Rock, Arkansas, before the secessions), has no grand ambitions besides maybe, possibly, losing his virginity someday. But when Truckee is thrust unexpectedly into the spotlight, he is tapped by the president for a sensitive political mission: to deliver a talking goat across the continent. The fate of the world depends upon it. The problem is - Truckee’s not sure it’s worth it.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse comes a fascinating and fantastic collection that explores complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life. In "All Kinds of Proof," a down-and-out drunk makes the unlikeliest...

The stunning conclusion to the trilogy that began with Pure, recommended by People for those who loved The Hunger Games. With his father now dead, Partridge has assumed leadership of the Dome, one of the last few refuges from the ravaged wastelands of the outside world. At first, Partridge is...

Sura Neelin is on the run from her creditors, from her past, and her father's murderers. She can't get a job, she can't get a place to live, she can't even walk down the street: the total surveillance society that is mid-21st-century America means that every camera and every pair of smart glasses is her enemy. But Sura might have a chance in the alternate reality of the games. People can disappear in the LARP game worlds, into the alternate economy of Notchcoin and blockchains.

When Amanda Thomlin finds herself face-to-face with the reality that she may never see her mother again, the overwhelming uncertainty nearly immobilizes her. A kind father figure steps up and takes her under his protection, bringing her into his family.

Der Klimawandel hat die Erde zerstört und in Inesas Heimat regiert ein Unternehmen die Region: Caerus. Diese Firma hat auch den "Lauf des Lamms“ erfunden, einen Wettbewerb, bei dem verschuldete Bürger:innen als "Lämmer“ gegen ausgebildete "Engel“ antreten müssen und von diesen bis auf den Tod gejagt werden. Das Ganze wird per Livestream übertragen. Als Inesas Mutter zu tief in die Schulden rutscht, muss ihre Tochter für sie als Lamm beim Lauf antreten. Doch da führen die Umstände dazu, dass Inesa und ihr Engel Melinoë zusammenarbeiten müssen. Und so kommen die beiden sich unerwartet näher.

One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time 2019 LOCUS AWARD WINNER, BEST FIRST NOVEL 2019 HUGO AWARD FINALIST, BEST NOVEL Nebula Award Finalist for Best Novel One of Bustle’s Top 20 “landmark sci-fi and fantasy novels” of the decade “An excitingly novel tale.” —Charlaine...

Nineteen-year-old Claudia Sheeplord is aboard an airplane flying to Denver when she discovers that all attempts to destroy the Death Asteroid before it hits Earth have failed. While still in the air, one of the asteroid masses hits Earth.

Ian and Lance are typical All-American teenagers: good at sports, martial arts, smart, and girl crazy. Best of friends, they are inseparable, when suddenly their lives are shattered. A meteor lands in Greenland with no warning, and with it comes new life. Ian and Lance's parents are stuck in Hawaii when the riots close in on their home. With their parents halfway across the world, the boys are abruptly forced to forsake their childhood in order to survive.

In the years following the catastrophe, the community stabilized and found ways to meet its needs - and even thrive - despite the constant challenges. However, while the radiation zones which created the Eureka Bubble protected the area from the worst ravages of the apocalypse, they also caused severe resource limitations which have become more acute over time and, eventually, the Bubble is going to burst.

When sixteen-year-old Zoe Williams discovers she can connect with silenced voices from history and glimpse dystopian futures, she realizes she's been chosen as the unprecedented second Guardian of a magical bookmark. While her counterpart Milo Parker travels to historical censorship events, Zoe's unique abilities reveal an urgent truth: they're facing a threat that requires both past knowledge and future awareness.

In a world ravaged by nuclear war, humanity stands on the brink of extinction. After emerging from beneath the ground hundreds of years later, man finds that the radiation leaves them sterile, barren. Now, born from a birthing pod, Ryu searches the war-torn earth for his missing father. Accompanying him is a sentient raven named Storm. With his prized katana, Ryu cuts down mutated man and beast alike. It's only when he meets the Resistance that he thinks to stand against the One World Order. Several questions remain... Will he prevail against their tyranny? Is his father even still alive?

As World War 3 looms, How to Prepare Your Cat for World War 3 by Cornelius Capybara delivers a rigorous survival manual to transform your feline companion into a battle-ready operative. Spanning eleven chapters, this guide instructs on constructing cat-sized bunkers, rationing resources, crafting protective gear, and training for espionage, scavenging, urban navigation, chemical detection, and evacuation leadership. Tested with the author’s own General Whiskers, the methods adapt military tactics to household materials—cardboard, foil, laser pointers—ensuring resilience amid chaos.

A beautifully-written dystopian thriller set in an underground bunker. The bunker is a place of safety. Wolfe is the bunker's resident pharmacist. While the inhabitants wait for the outside world to heal, she doles out ibuprofen, sanitary towels and Xanax - all under the watchful eye of the...

A Recommended Summer Read from The Verge and io9 A Recommended June Read from Hello Giggles and Tor.com When the world ends, where will you go? In a breathtakingly vivid and emotionally gripping debut novel, one woman must confront the emptiness in the universe—and in her own heart—when a...

“Red Dawn meets Escape from New York and The Hunger Games” (Booklist) in an action-packed dystopian fantasy filled with “prose [that] is gorgeous and brilliant” and “tells a satisfyingly dark tale through alternating the two sisters’ points of view” (VOYA, starred review). It’s...

To Edwin Smythe it seems as though everyone wants to change the world. Everyone except him. Stumbling upon an old secret in his customary distracted wanderings sets into motion events which would upend his isolated world, and that of all who meet him. Edwin and new acquaintances awaken hidden and slumbering Immortals, return to the world an unusual form of magic previously stamped out and forgotten, and discover just how little the world knows of its buried past.

Life after an EMP puts the US in the dark ages is not an easy one. Life is dangerous and difficult enough without humans preying on each other. Don, an alcoholic, and a gamer girl called "Z" make an odd introduction together and find themselves thrust into a survival situation neither of them are prepared to endure.

In the winding underground tunnels of the Library, the great peacekeeper of the three systems, a heinous secret lies buried—and Freida is the only one who can uncover it. As the daughter of a Library god, Freida has spent her whole life exploring the Library's ever-changing tunnels and communing with the gods. Her unparalleled access makes her unique—and dangerous.

In the ruins of San Francisco, California, survivors of an epidemic that swept the nation have pooled inside the cities, restructuring life as we know it, pitting the rich Golden against the poor Dreg. Saya Leighton belongs to a group of rebels who fight to stay off the radar. She and her family are Dreg nomads, choosing to live separate from the government rule, which means they’re always on the run - moving from place to place.