Browsing: Dystopian Fiction

From an author called “a prophet of technology’s future” (Booklist): Nanotech engineer John Percival Hackworth risks the future of society when he steals a copy of a device that teaches independent thought. A “whimsical, satirical, and cautionary” sci-fi tale (USA Today) with over 32,000 five-star Goodreads ratings!

From a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author comes “a powerful cautionary tale” (Whitley Streiber): Years after the Doomwar decimated the United States, Gordon Krantz becomes an unlikely symbol of hope — but there are those who’d thwart his mission…

With over 4,200 five-star Goodreads ratings: Stavia comes of age in a matriarchal utopia, where women possess the secrets of civilization. But when she begins to question its laws, the future of society hangs in the balance. “Lively, thought-provoking… The plot is ingenious, packing a wallop of a surprise” (Ursula K. Le Guin).

Discover the three laws of Robotics — and the robots that test their limits! This visionary sequence of interlinked stories is a landmark sci-fi masterpiece with nearly 95,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads. “Asimov was one of the great explainers of the age” (Carl Sagan).

From the author of A Town Like Alice: In this “haunting evocation” (The New York Times), society reels from the devastating effects of nuclear war. “Nevil Shute was, in brief, the sort of novelist who genuinely touches the imagination and feeling” (The Times).

Santaroga seemed to be nothing more than a prosperous farm community. But there was something . . . different .…

“A madcap genealogical adventure” (The New York Times Book Review): After a disease renders mankind infertile, only a small shipwrecked group has the ability to carry on the human race. Hailed upon publication as “the best Vonnegut novel yet” (John Irving).

Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works-and how to…

A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess’s nightmare vision of the future,…

Hailed for his grandeur of imagination and superb worldbuilding, winner of and nominee for more than fifty awards for his…