Browsing: Dystopian Fiction

“A masterpiece” (The Wall Street Journal): This classic work offers a satirical and disturbing view of the future — a world in which class roles are reinforced by genetic manipulation and family, freedom, and love are considered grotesque. “Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th-century writer in English” (Chicago Tribune).

Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. The Mighty Dragon. They were heroes, using their superhuman abilities to make Los Angeles a…

An “audaciously imagined” tale (Publishers Weekly) from a New York Times bestselling author: A brilliant scientist’s curiosity unleashes terror upon a squalid metropolis in this Dickensian descent into a nightmare. This Arthur C. Clarke Award winner has over 17,500 five-star ratings on Goodreads!

A New York Times bestseller that inspired the hit film: A young man is pulled into the world of the enigmatic Tyler Durden in this “utterly original” modern classic (Publishers Weekly). “Diabolically sharp and funny” (The Washington Post Book World), with over 186,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer: A kidnapping plot hatched from inside cyberspace intertwines the fates of Mona and Angie. “A very satisfying novel” (Publishers Weekly) with “dazzling, high-tech prose” (Library Journal).

From a Nebula Award–winning author comes a “compelling” novel (Publishers Weekly) for fans of Margaret Atwood: In the future, women have exiled men to live outside the walls of their high-tech cities. Can a woman ousted from society and a man from the wild find refuge in their divided world?

“Brilliantly conceived… Could well become horrific reality” (Clive Cussler): Technology is everywhere — and it’s just turned against us. Can humanity survive the robot uprising? This visionary sci-fi epic is “terrific page-turning fun” (Stephen King).

In this visionary novel, an apocalyptic disaster renders one woman the last human being on Earth. Can she learn to survive while trapped behind an invisible wall? “Wonderful… as absorbing as Robinson Crusoe” (Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing), with over 2,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads.