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Best for readers who like intricate literary fantasy about memory, imagination, and death.
Peace
Dystopian · Fantasy · Sci-Fi
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Called “a tricky, evil, deep, and remarkable novel” by Neil Gaiman, Peace follows elderly Alden Dennis Weer as he recounts his life in a small Midwestern town, with his memories reshaping time and reality. Best for readers who like intricate literary fantasy about memory, imagination, and death.
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Hailed as "one of the literary giants of SF" by the Denver Post, Gene Wolfe has repeatedly won the field's highest honors, including the Nebula, the Hugo, and the World Fantasy awards.
Peace is Gene Wolfe's first full-length novel, a work that shows the genius that later flourished in such acclaimed works as The Fifth Head of Cerberus and The Book of The New Sun.
Originally published in 1975, Peace is a spellbinding, brilliant tour de force of the imagination. The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living out his last days in a small midwestern town, the novel reveals a miraculous dimension as the narrative unfolds. For Weer's imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself. Powerfully moving and uncompromisingly honest, Peace ranks alongside the finest literary works of our time.
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A good pick for science fiction readers who like AI, space warfare, alien conflict, and isolated crews facing technology they can’t fully control.
Providence
Dystopian
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Seven years after humanity’s first contact with a hostile alien species, four crew members board Providence Five, an AI-powered warship designed to fight the enemy while they report the war back to Earth. When communications are cut and the ship becomes increasingly unreliable, the crew must confront both the enemy and the technology controlling their mission, with a 3.85-star average from more than 7,100 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for science fiction readers who like AI, space warfare, alien conflict, and isolated crews facing technology they can’t fully control.
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From the ingenious author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon: a brilliant work of science fiction that tells the intimate tale of four people facing their most desperate hour--alone, together, at the edge of the universe.
The video changed everything. Before that, we could believe that we were safe. Special. Chosen. We thought the universe was a twinkling ocean of opportunity, waiting to be explored.
Afterward, we knew better.
Seven years after first contact, Providence Five launches. It is an enormous and deadly warship, built to protect humanity from its greatest ever threat. On board is a crew of just four--tasked with monitoring the ship and reporting the war's progress to a mesmerized global audience by way of social media.
But while pursuing the enemy across space, Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson confront the unthinkable: their communications are cut, their ship decreasingly trustworthy and effective. To survive, they must win a fight that is suddenly and terrifyingly real.
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A good pick for fans of literary dystopian fiction built around climate change, family, displacement, and interconnected timelines.
The End of the Ocean
Dystopian
Our take
In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets out alone on a hazardous ocean voyage, while in 2041, David and his young daughter Lou flee a drought-ravaged Southern Europe in search of their missing family. Their stories connect when David and Lou discover Signe’s abandoned sailboat in a parched garden far from the sea. A good pick for fans of literary dystopian fiction built around climate change, family, displacement, and interconnected timelines.
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From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future.
In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives. Signe is haunted by memories of the love of her life, whom she’ll meet again soon.
In 2041, David and his young daughter, Lou, flee from a drought-stricken Southern Europe that has been ravaged by thirst and war. Separated from the rest of their family and desperate to find them, they discover an ancient sailboat in a dried-out garden, miles away from the nearest shore. Signe’s sailboat.
As David and Lou discover Signe’s personal effects, her long ago journey becomes inexorably linked to their own.
An evocative tale of the search for love and connection, The End of the Ocean is a profoundly moving father daughter story of survival and a clarion call for climate action.
Translated from the Norwegian by Diane Oatley
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This will appeal to readers who want dystopian science fiction focused on cloning, survival, individuality, and the future of humanity.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Dystopian
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A Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel about an isolated post-apocalyptic community that turns to cloning as humanity faces sterility and collapse, with a 3.85-star average from more than 11,400 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want dystopian science fiction focused on cloning, survival, individuality, and the future of humanity.
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An Appalachian community attempts to survive after the apocalypse in this award-winning classic, "the best novel about cloning written to date" (Locus).
Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test.
Now one of her most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Later the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and hard SF, and won SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication. It is as compelling today as it was then.
"Kate Wilhelm's cautionary message comes through loud and clear." ―The New York Times
"One of the best treatments of cloning in SF." ―The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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Best for readers who like dark satire about body image and social pressure.
Thinner Than Thou
Dystopian
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Called “Stinging and mordantly witty” by Publishers Weekly, this dystopian novel imagines a society where fitness has become a religion and the pursuit of physical perfection conceals forced feeding and starvation. Best for readers who like dark satire about body image and social pressure.
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TV says it. Magazines say it. American society commands it. You must be thin. You must be young. Fad diets. Fat-purging pills. Fitness clubs. Liposuction. Breast implants. Steroids.
In the tomorrow of Thinner Than Thou, the cult of the body has become the one true religion. The Dedicated Sisters are a religious order sworn to help anorexic, bulimic, and morbidly obese youth. Throughout the land, houses of worship have been replaced by the health clubs of the Crossed Triceps. And through hypnotically powerful evangelical infomercials, the Reverend Earl preaches the heaven of the Afterfat, where you will look like a Greek god and eat anything you want. Just sign over your life savings and come to Sylphania, the most luxurious weight-loss spa in the world, where the Reverend himself will personally supervise your attainment of physical perfection.
But the glory of youth and thinness that America worships conceals a hidden world where teens train for the competitive eating circuit, where fat porn and obese strippers feed people's dark desires, and where an underground railroad of rebellious religions remember when people worshipped God instead of the Afterfat.
As Annie, an anorexic, and her friend Kelly, who is so massive she can barely walk, find out, the tender promises of the Dedicated Sisters are fulfilled by forced feedings and enforced starvation in hidden prisons.
As middle-aged Jeremy discovers, Sylphania is a concentration camp where failure to lose weight and tone up leads to brutal punishment.
The Rev. Earl's public sympathy for the overweight conceals a private contempt . . . and, beneath that, a terrible longing known only to a select few.
The inevitable decay of old age is the only thing keeping mankind from reaching perfection. Luckily, Reverend Earl has a plan that will take care of that . . . .
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When a catastrophic event brings modern life to a halt, an Amish community finds its peaceful way of life under threat from the chaos around it.
When the English Fall
Dystopian
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When a catastrophic event brings modern life to a halt, an Amish community finds its peaceful way of life under threat from the chaos around it. Told through farmer Jacob’s diary, this is a quieter take on an end-of-the-world story. It has a 3.68-star Goodreads rating from more than 5,000 readers.
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A riveting and unexpected novel that questions whether a peaceful and non- violent community can survive when civilization falls apart.
Again, all are asleep, but I am not. I need sleep, but though I read and I pray, I feel too awake. My mind paces the floor.
There are shots now and again, bursts here and there, far away, and I cannot sleep. I think of this man in his hunger, shot like a rabbit raiding a garden. For what, Lord? For stealing corn intended for pigs and cattle, like the hungry prodigal helpless in a strange land.
I can hear his voice.
When a catastrophic solar storm brings about the collapse of modern civilization, an Amish community is caught up in the devastating aftermath. With their stocked larders and stores of supplies, the Amish are unaffected at first. But as the English (the Amish name for all non-Amish people) in the cities become increasingly desperate, they begin to invade nearby farms, taking whatever they want and unleashing unthinkable violence on the gentle communities.
Written as the diary of an Amish farmer named Jacob who tries to protect his family and his way of life, When the English Fall examines the idea of peace in the face of deadly chaos. Should members of a nonviolent society defy their beliefs and take up arms to defend themselves? And if they do, can they survive?
David Williams's debut novel is a thoroughly engrossing look into the closed world of the Amish, as well as a thought-provoking examination of how we live today and what remains if the center cannot hold.
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Ideal for readers interested in how Bradbury developed the ideas behind his dystopian novel.
A Pleasure to Burn
Dystopian
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Ray Bradbury’s collection brings together stories and novellas that preceded Fahrenheit 451, including tales about censorship, threatened books, and those who protect them. Ideal for readers interested in how Bradbury developed the ideas behind his dystopian novel.
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Before Fahrenheit 451, there was a carnival of madness, a pillar of fire, and a world where the dead walked.
There was a future where the last books of Poe and Lovecraft were burned, and a solitary librarian stood as the final guardian of imagination. Here, in this essential classic science fiction collection, are the sixteen vintage stories and novellas that Ray Bradbury forged into his dystopian masterpiece.
This volume charts the thrilling genesis of Bradbury’s most iconic ideas. Witness the lonely pedestrian arrested for the crime of walking in a society glued to its screens. Meet the firemen whose job is not to stop fires but to start them. Travel to a haunted Mars where literary legends wage a final war against censorship, and stand with the last man on Earth to defy a world that would rather burn history than read it. These are the tales of terror and wonder that lit the match of a revolution.
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In a future America partly occupied by intelligent machines, a Canadian businessman stranded in Chicago joins forces with a Russian medic and a damaged robot to uncover a…
The Robots Of Gotham
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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In a future America partly occupied by intelligent machines, a Canadian businessman stranded in Chicago joins forces with a Russian medic and a damaged robot to uncover a conspiracy that could wipe out humanity. Praised by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly, this dystopian sci-fi thriller holds a 4.13 star Goodreads rating.
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A group of misfit humans and machines fight to stop a conspiracy to exterminate humanity in a future Chicago ruled by a brutal artificial intelligence.
The future is ruled by intelligent machines. After a brutal war leaving at least one quarter of the United States still under occupation, the remnants of the American government are negotiating for a permanent peace with a coalition of sophisticated but fascist machines that have besieged the country.
Barry Simcoe, a businessman from Canada, is in occupied Chicago when his hotel is attacked by a rogue, thirty-foot-tall war drone. In the aftermath, he meets a Russian medic and a badly damaged robot called 19 Black Winter. Together, the trio stumble on a deep conspiracy driven by America's conquerors that reveal a vicious plan, setting them in a race against time to protect the nation from a fate worse than subjugation.
Praise for The Robots of Gotham
"This debut novel beautifully combines a postapocalyptic man-versus-machine conflict and a medical thriller . . . This is thrilling, epic SF." —New York Times
"An epic novel . . . full of action, political intrigue, and unexpected twists. Todd McAulty has given us a fresh, compelling take on life during a robot apocalypse." —Jeff Abbott, New York Times–bestselling author of Blame
"A page-turner that kept me riveted from the opening lines to the final chapter. Highly recommended!" —David B. Coe, author of The Case Files of Justis Fearsson series
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A strong match for readers who like post-apocalyptic survival thrillers, grid-down scenarios, dangerous journeys, and capable older protagonists.
EMP No Grid No Warning
Dystopian
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After an EMP brings down her flight, retired pilot Grace becomes the only person who can get a stranded child across a frozen mountain range and through a country where the grid, rescue systems, and normal rules are gone. A strong match for readers who like post-apocalyptic survival thrillers, grid-down scenarios, dangerous journeys, and capable older protagonists.
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Overnight, an EMP sent America back to the age before electricity. Her promise didn't age a day
Years ago, they took away her wings. Yesterday, the EMP took down her plane. Grace appeared to be just another grandmother on a crowded flight. Then the EMP killed the engines, and the pilots didn't make it. Now the only survivor who knows how to keep a child alive in a frozen mountain range is an old woman the world forgot was ever a pilot at all.
There's no rescue coming. No working grid. No government riding in to help. Nothing but miles of lawless, empty country between a stranded child and her family's front gate. And one woman who's done being forgotten.
God help whoever stands between this old woman and getting that little girl home.
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This will appeal to readers who want YA zombie horror with brutal survival choices and a protagonist willing to put others at risk.
If We Survive the Night
Horror · Post-Apocalyptic
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If We Survive the Night follows sixteen-year-old Quinn, a resident at a treatment center for troubled girls, when a zombie apocalypse traps her and her best friend Keisha in a fight to escape. It has a 4.2-star average from more than 800 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want YA zombie horror with brutal survival choices and a protagonist willing to put others at risk.
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It's kill or be killed in this heart-pounding apocalyptic horror. The first book in a new series, If We Survive the Night combines the ruthless zombie perils of The Last of Us with the every-woman-for-herself angle of Yellowjackets. What type of person does it take to survive the end of the world?
Sixteen-year-old Quinn is used to being told that what she feels inside isn't quite right. After getting kicked out of multiple foster homes and narrowly escaping juvenile detention, she's undergoing therapy at a residential treatment center for "troubled" girls. Looking for a night of freedom, Quinn sneaks onto the roof with her best friend Keisha, and what she sees changes everything…
She witnesses the start of the zombie apocalypse.
As zombies, or "carriers" as the news calls them, infiltrate the treatment center, escape becomes crucial. Quinn and Keisha make a pact to leave together, but several unexpected complications screw up their plans.
As the girls battle the carriers and wrestle with their doubts about each other, Quinn realizes she has never felt more alive. Maybe this is exactly the kind of world she was built for. And part of thriving in this cutthroat environment means cutting off the dead weight – even if that means putting other lives at risk…But even if she's willing to sacrifice everything, can anyone really outlive the apocalypse?
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A strong match for readers who want large-scale zombie horror focused on an outbreak, survival, and the collapse of society.
The Living Dead
Dystopian · Horror · LGBTQIA+
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George A. Romero’s unfinished zombie novel, completed by Daniel Kraus, follows a rapidly spreading outbreak through multiple survivors, from medical examiners and a trailer park to an aircraft carrier and cable news station, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 1,500 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who want large-scale zombie horror focused on an outbreak, survival, and the collapse of society.
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“A horror landmark and a work of gory genius.”—Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman
New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus completes George A. Romero's brand-new masterpiece of zombie horror, the massive novel left unfinished at Romero's death!
George A. Romero invented the modern zombie with Night of the Living Dead, creating a monster that has become a key part of pop culture. Romero often felt hemmed in by the constraints of film-making. To tell the story of the rise of the zombies and the fall of humanity the way it should be told, Romero turned to fiction. Unfortunately, when he died, the story was incomplete.
Enter Daniel Kraus, co-author, with Guillermo del Toro, of the New York Times bestseller The Shape of Water (based on the Academy Award-winning movie) and Trollhunters (which became an Emmy Award-winning series), and author of The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch (an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year). A lifelong Romero fan, Kraus was honored to be asked, by Romero's widow, to complete The Living Dead.
Set in the present day, The Living Dead is an entirely new tale, the story of the zombie plague as George A. Romero wanted to tell it.
It begins with one body.
A pair of medical examiners find themselves battling a dead man who won’t stay dead.
It spreads quickly.
In a Midwestern trailer park, a Black teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic makes a new religion out of death. At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting while his undead colleagues try to devour him. In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come.
Everywhere, people are targeted by both the living and the dead.
We think we know how this story ends.
We. Are. Wrong.
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Ideal for readers looking for literary dystopia centered on grief, parenthood, queer family life, government surveillance, and community resistance.
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
Dystopian · LGBTQIA+
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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction, this dystopian novel follows Kris, a grieving mother raising a daughter in a surveillance state where people who break the law are marked with additional shadows and stripped of rights, with a 3.9-star average from more than 8,100 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for literary dystopia centered on grief, parenthood, queer family life, government surveillance, and community resistance.
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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction
Dept. of Speculation meets Black Mirror in this lyrical, speculative debut about a queer mother raising her daughter in an unjust surveillance state
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form of law enforcement: rather than incarceration, wrongdoers are given a second (and sometimes, third, fourth, and fifth) shadow as a reminder of their crime—and a warning to those they encounter. Within the Department, corruption and prejudice run rampant, giving rise to an underclass of so-called Shadesters who are disenfranchised, publicly shamed, and deprived of civil rights protections.
Kris is a Shadester and a new mother to a baby born with a second shadow of her own. Grieving the loss of her wife and thoroughly unprepared for the reality of raising a child alone, Kris teeters on the edge of collapse, fumbling in a daze of alcohol, shame, and self-loathing. Yet as the kid grows, Kris finds her footing, raising a child whose irrepressible spark cannot be dampened by the harsh realities of the world. She can’t forget her wife, but with time, she can make a new life for herself and the kid, supported by a community of fellow misfits who defy the Department to lift one another up in solidarity and hope.
With a first-person register reminiscent of the fierce self-disclosure of Sheila Heti and the poetic precision of Ocean Vuong, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself is a bold debut novel that examines the long shadow of grief, the hard work of parenting, and the power of queer resistance.
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