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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick - Del Rey
Format: Paperback
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A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living... |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, Centennial Edition
George Orwell - Plume; Centennial edition
Format: Paperback
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"Thought Police." "Big Brother." "Orwellian." These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, 1984. The story of one man's nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring... |
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The Handmaid's Tale
MARGARET ATWOOD - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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From the author of Alias Grace and the Maddaddam trilogy: here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction, now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes a new introduction by the author.Offred... |
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Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Ray Bradbury - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian... |
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The Giver
Lois Lowry - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver... |
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Divergent
Veronica Roth - HarperCollins
Format: Print book
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In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue - Candor (the honest) , Abnegation (the selfless) , Dauntless (the brave) , Amity (the peaceful) , and Erudite (the intelligent) . On an appointed... |
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring "masterpiece ... one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century" (Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our "brave new world"Aldous... |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick - Del Rey
Format: Paperback
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A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living... |
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The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook
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Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGens Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkoks street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of historys lost calories. There,... |
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first novel in the worldwide bestselling series by Suzanne Collins!Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . . In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying... |
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Neuromancer
William Gibson - Ace Books
Format: Print book
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SPECIAL 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE PAST TWO DECADESTwenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula,... |
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Article 5: Compliance is Mandatory
Kristen Simmons - Tor Teen
Format: Print book
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New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned.The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes.There are no more police -- instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior -- instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse.... |
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The Drowned World: A Novel
J G Ballard - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A new generation discovers "the most original English writer of the last century." -- China Miville, The Nation Appearing in hardcover in America for the first time, this neglected Ballardian masterpiece promises to be a touchstone for environmentalists the world over. First... |
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Uglies
Scott Westerfeld - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover
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The first installment of Scott Westerfeld's New York Times bestselling series - a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.The Uglies series has more than 3 million books in print, has been translated into twenty-seven languages, and spent more than fifty weeks on the New York... |
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy #1)
Margaret Atwood
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A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker PrizeMargaret Atwood's new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their vi |
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark.... |
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Lord of the Flies, Centenary Edition
William Golding - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The classic novel by William GoldingWith a new Introduction by Stephen King"To me Lord of the Flies has always represented what novels are for, what makes them indispensable." -Stephen KingGolding's classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature... |
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Watchmen
Alan Moore - DC Comics
Format: Paperback
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A murder mystery-turned-nationwide conspiracy, WATCHMEN examines the lives of the eponymous superhero team as they seem to decay alongside the ever-darkening America around them. Rorschach, Nite Owl, the Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias reunite to investigate who's behind a teammate's... |
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V for Vendetta
Alan Moore - Vertigo/DC Comics
Format: Print book
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In an alternate future in which Germany wins WWII and Britain becomes a fascist state, a vigilante named "V" stalks the streets of London trying to free England of its ideological chains. |
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The Host: A Novel
Stephenie Meyer - Little, Brown
Format: Paperback
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Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, didn't expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish... |
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The Lottery and Other Stories
Shirley Jackson - Farrar
Format: Paperback
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A reissue of the masterful short story, coinciding with the publication of the graphic adaptation of its title storyOne of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in 1948. Today it is considered... |
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z, a #1 New... |
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Matched
Ally Condie - Speak
Format: Paperback
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"The hottest YA title to hit bookstores since The Hunger Games."--Entertainment WeeklyA New York Times bestsellerCassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's... |
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Wool
Hugh Howey - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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For suspense-filled, post-apocalyptic thrillers, Wool is more than a self-published ebook phenomenonits the new standard in classic science fiction. In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society... |
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The Circle
Dave Eggers - Random House
Format: Book
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, The Circle is the exhilarating novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of Heroes of the Frontier. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity... |
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Unwind
Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would "unwind" them Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding... |
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The Core of the Sun
Johanna Sinisalo - Black Cat
Format: Print book
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From the author of the Finlandia Award-winning novel Troll: A Love Story, The Core of the Sun further cements Johanna Sinisalo's reputation as a master of literary speculative fiction and of her country's unique take on it, dubbed "Finnish weird." Set in an alternative... |
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Roadside Picnic
Arkady Strugatsky - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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Amazing. . . . The Strugatskys' deft and supple handling of loyalty and greed, of friendship and love, of despair and frustration and loneliness [produces] a truly superb tale. . . . You won't forget it -Theodore Sturgeon Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled,... |
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The Running Man: A Novel
Stephen King - Pocket Books
Format: Paperback
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A desperate man attempts to win a reality TV game where the only objective is to stay alive in this #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman.It was the ultimate death game in a nightmare future America. The year is 2025 and reality TV has grown to the point where... |
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Gather the Daughters: A Novel
JENNIE MELAMED - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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NEVER LET ME GO meets THE GIVER in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.A New York Magazine best book of the monthA Real Simple best book of the monthPeople Magazine's Book of the WeekYears ago, just before the country was incinerated... |
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The Running Man: A Novel
Stephen King - Pocket Books
Format: Paperback
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A desperate man attempts to win a reality TV game where the only objective is to stay alive in this #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman.It was the ultimate death game in a nightmare future America. The year is 2025 and reality TV has grown to the point where... |
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