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615 past books matching Dystopian
In Nobody, being unseen is not just lonely.
Nobody
Dystopian · Teen + Young Adult · Paranormal Romance
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In Nobody, being unseen is not just lonely. It is deadly. Claire has spent her life slipping past notice, but when a secret organization discovers her existence, they send another teen like her to kill her before she becomes a threat. Instead, Claire and Nix are pulled into a dangerous connection that turns this YA fantasy into a tense mix of assassins, pursuit, supernatural intrigue, and romantic tension.
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"In a pleasurable ride through chases, escapes, sinister memories and romantic tension" a teen teams up with her assassin is this "gripping" fantasy novel (Kirkus Reviews).
There are people in this world who are Nobody. No one sees them. No one notices them. They live their lives under the radar, forgotten as soon as you turn away.
That's why they make the perfect assassins.
The Institute finds these people when they're young and takes them away for training. But an untrained Nobody is a threat to their organization. And threats must be eliminated.
Sixteen-year-old Claire has been invisible her whole life, missed by the Institute's monitoring. But now they've ID'ed her and send seventeen-year-old Nix to remove her. Yet the moment he lays eyes on her, he can't make the hit. It's as if Claire and Nix are the only people in the world for each other. And they are—because no one else can really see them.
"The novel's imaginative mixture of supernatural elements with action and romance will appeal to a broad range of readers." —Booklist
"Barnes continues to establish herself as a strong voice in dark fantasy and science fiction." ―Publishers Weekly
"This thrill ride will keep readers entranced and could appeal to reluctant readers. . . . An exciting addition for collections where action novels are popular." ―School Library Journal
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This cyberpunk thriller will work well for readers who want gritty action, sharp political tension, and questions about identity woven into a neon-soaked setting.
36 Streets
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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36 Streets drops readers into a future Hanoi shaped by occupation, gang power, and technology that turns war into addiction. At the center is Lin Vu, a hardened outsider caught between the criminal world that raised her and the larger forces trying to control memory, violence, and truth. This cyberpunk thriller will work well for readers who want gritty action, sharp political tension, and questions about identity woven into a neon-soaked setting.
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Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this fast-paced, intelligent, action-driven cyberpunk, probing questions of memory, identity and the power of narratives.
Lin 'The Silent One' Vu is a gangster and sometime private investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider.
Through grit and courage Lin has carved a place for herself in the Vietnamese underworld where Hanoi’s crime boss, Bao Nguyen, is training her to fight and lead. Bao drives her hard; on the streets there are no second chances. Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory – a dangerously addictive immersive simulation of the US-Vietnam war.
When an Englishman comes to Hanoi on the trail of his friend’s murderer, Lin's life is turned upside down. She is drawn into the grand conspiracies of the neon gods – of regimes and mega-corporations – as they unleash dangerous new technologies.
Lin must confront the immutable moral calculus of unjust wars. She must choose: family, country, or gang. Blood, truth, or redemption. No choice is easy on the 36 Streets.
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Fast, gruesome, and built for readers who like their sci-fi with a serious body count.
2389
Post-Apocalyptic · Horror · Sci-Fi
Our take
A luxury amusement park on the moon sounds fun right up until it sends out a distress call and then goes completely silent. 2389 takes that already terrible setup and runs with it, sending a team into Grand Galaxies to find out what went wrong and uncovering something far worse than a broken ride. Fast, gruesome, and built for readers who like their sci-fi with a serious body count.
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The happiest place in the galaxy just sent out a distress call...
Grand Galaxies is the most expensive amusement park ever created, built on the surface of the moon. For decades, rich families and honeymooning couples have gone there to have the time of their lives and no one has ever returned disappointed...
But communication with the moon has been lost.
Someone needs to go up there and see what’s wrong.
A unique and terrifying experience by a master of the genre. Sci-fi meets horror head on with the terrifying 2389. Grab your copy now and experience the fear for yourself.
"Iain Rob Wright scares the hell out of me." - J.A.Konrath
"Iain Rob Wright is sick and twisted!" - David Moody.
"Cuddle up to this novel and it might rip your throat out. A fun, thrilling read!" David T. Wilbanks - Co-author of Dead Earth: The Vengeance Road
"One of the BEST horror books I have read in YEARS!" - Eric S. Brown, author of Last Stand in a Dead Land.
"Iain Rob Wright brings true excitement to the horror genre, with wholly original stories and characters to route for." - Ryan C Thomas, author of Hissers, Rating's Game, and Origin of Pain.
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Saving humanity sounds noble right up until someone plants a bomb on the ship.
The Deep Sky
Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Speculative Fiction
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Saving humanity sounds noble right up until someone plants a bomb on the ship. The Deep Sky follows a generation ship mission carrying Earth’s last hope, where one deadly explosion leaves the crew terrified, suspicious, and increasingly willing to turn on each other. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is stuck at the center of the chaos in this tense sci-fi thriller that blends space survival, buried secrets, and the kind of pressure that makes trust feel almost fictional.
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Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew.
They left Earth to save humanity. They’ll have to save themselves first.
It is the eve of Earth’s environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity’s last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect.
As the mystery unfolds on the ship, poignant flashbacks reveal how Asuka came to be picked for the mission. Despite struggling through training back on Earth, she was chosen to represent Japan, a country she only partly knows as a half-Japanese girl raised in America. But estranged from her mother back home, The Phoenix is all she has left.
With the crew turning on each other, Asuka is determined to find the culprit before they all lose faith in the mission—or worse, the bomber strikes again.
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The Shockwave Rider feels unsettlingly ahead of its time, dropping readers into a future drowning in data, surveillance, bureaucracy, and identity collapse.
The Shockwave Rider
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia · Post-Apocalyptic
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The Shockwave Rider feels unsettlingly ahead of its time, dropping readers into a future drowning in data, surveillance, bureaucracy, and identity collapse. At the center is Nickie Haflinger, a fugitive who keeps reinventing himself to stay ahead of the system trying to reprogram him. Sharp, paranoid, and packed with big ideas, this is the kind of science fiction that reads less like old-school speculation and more like a warning that showed up early.
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In a world drowning in data, a fugitive tries to outrun the forces that want to reprogram him, in this smart, edgy novel by a Hugo Award–winning author.
Constantly shifting his identity among a population choking on information, innovation, and novelty, Nickie Haflinger is a most dangerous outlaw, yet he doesn't even appear to exist. As global society falls apart in all directions, with corporate power run amok and personal freedom surrendered to computers and bureaucrats, Haflinger is caught and about to be re-programmed. Now he has to try to escape once again, defy the government—and turn the tide of organizational destruction, in this visionary science fiction novel by the author of The Sheep Look Up and Stand on Zanzibar.
"Brunner writes about the future as if he and the reader were already living in it." —The New York Times Book Review
"When John Brunner first told me of his intention to write the book, I was fascinated—but I wondered whether he, or anyone, could bring it off. Bring it off he has, with cool brilliance. A hero with transient personalities, animals with souls, think tanks and survival communities fuse to form a future so plausibly alive it as twitched at me ever since." —Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock
"One of the most important science fiction authors. Brunner held a mirror up to reflect our foibles because he wanted to save us from ourselves." —SF Site
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It fits cyberpunk readers who want corporate control, transhuman danger, political corruption, and a damaged hero pulled through neon-soaked ruin.
Fragments of Solace
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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A shattered mind and a ruined city turn every search for truth into a fight against memory itself. In Fragments of Solace - Proxima Vita, Kimoni is forced back into dystopian Hong Kong to trace a weaponised drug and the conspiracy behind it. It fits cyberpunk readers who want corporate control, transhuman danger, political corruption, and a damaged hero pulled through neon-soaked ruin.
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In the rain-lashed, neon-drenched ruins of post-apocalyptic Hong Kong, Kimoni is the eyes of the powerful XIAN Corporation—a living security system in a city where human potential is a traded commodity. But when a brutal assault shatters his body and fractures his mind, the one man who sees everything is left blind.
Grafted with a hypersensitive robotic arm and haunted by ghosts of a past he cannot grasp, Kimoni is dragged back from exile. His corporate masters demand he hunt for the truth. The city's chief of Tai Kwun needs him to trace a lethal, weaponised drug tearing through the streets. Both trails converge on one place: the lawless, neon-soaked underbelly of Proxima, the Lantern District.
Here, in a sanctuary of exiles and convicts where hope is a currency and despair is a product, Kimoni's only ally is a sharp-witted addict, her neck marked with the Insig of a conviction. Together, they descend into a labyrinth of political corruption, corporate espionage, and twisted transhuman science.
But as fragments of the truth coalesce into a terrifying whole, Kimoni uncovers a conspiracy that could burn the city to the ground. To expose it, he must confront the most terrifying question of all: in a world built on lies, is the truth worth the price of remembering?
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Good for readers who like medical thrillers, parasite horror, and near-future science fiction with outbreak stakes.
Symbiont
Dystopian · Thriller · Genetic Engineering
Our take
In a world where tapeworms were designed to cure diseases, they instead turn on their hosts, creating a ravenous horde. Sal and her companions must uncover the tapeworms' sinister plan and find a way to stop them before it's too late. Symbiont has a 4.3-star rating from more than 1,100 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like medical thrillers, parasite horror, and near-future science fiction with outbreak stakes.
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From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes the second book in the terrifying Parasitology series.
The SymboGen-designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde.
Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped.
"A riveting near-future medical thriller that reads like the genetically-engineered love child of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton." —John Joseph Adams on Parasite
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A good pick for readers who want dystopian science fiction about civil collapse, unlikely allies, and speculative medicine.
Aftermath
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
Our take
Called “an amazingly good first novel” by Rocky Mountain News, Aftermath imagines an America fractured by assassination, economic collapse, civil war, famine, and disease. Three strangers are drawn together by a mysterious cry for help from a woman who may hold the key to a different future. A good pick for readers who want dystopian science fiction about civil collapse, unlikely allies, and speculative medicine.
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The acclaimed actor's shockingly prescient science fiction novel "presents a near-future United States torn apart by civil war and deep racial strife" (Tampa Bay Times).
In 2012, the first African American president is assassinated by a white extremist—just four days after he is elected. The horrific tragedy leads to riots, financial collapse, and ultimately, a full-on civil war. In its aftermath, millions are left homeless as famine and disease spread throughout the country.
But from Chicago, a mysterious voice cries out . . .
To Leon Crane, a former NASA scientist now struggling to survive on the streets, the pleas he hears remind him of the wife he could not save—and offer him a chance at redemption.
To Jacob Fire Cloud, a revered Lakota medicine man, the voice is a sign that the White Buffalo Woman has returned to unite all the races in peace and prosperity.
And to little Amy Ladue, the cries are those of her mother, who disappeared during the devastating St. Louis earthquake—and who must still be alive.
These three strangers will be drawn together to rescue someone they have never met, a woman who holds the key to a new future for humanity—one remarkably brimming with hope.
"LeVar Burton brings a strong new voice to science fiction with this powerful, even disturbing, novel." —Ben Bova, New York Times–bestselling author
"An amazingly good first novel." —Rocky Mountain News
"I highly recommend this book!" —Whoopi Goldberg
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A strong pick for readers who like speculative fiction that feels darkly funny, strange, and a little too plausible.
The Wanting Seed
Dystopian
Our take
In The Wanting Seed, Anthony Burgess imagines a future warped by overpopulation, where social policy, marriage, and morality twist into something grotesque and absurd. Following Tristram Foxe and Beatrice-Joanna through a world of state control, fertility panic, and unraveling order, this dystopian novel delivers sharp satire with a deeply unsettling edge. A strong pick for readers who like speculative fiction that feels darkly funny, strange, and a little too plausible.
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Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce.
Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.
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On a battered island remade by climate catastrophe, survival depends on guarding the barrier that keeps the desperate at bay.
The Wall
Dystopian
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On a battered island remade by climate catastrophe, survival depends on guarding the barrier that keeps the desperate at bay. In The Wall, Joseph Kavanagh begins his service as a Defender and quickly learns that fear, division, and duty can be as dangerous as the threat beyond the concrete. This dystopian novel blends political tension, survival stakes, and sharp social commentary into a lean, unsettling read.
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize
"Thrilling…A topical and deftly satirical novel." —Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal
In this taut, dystopian tale, an island nation ravaged by the Change has built an enormous concrete barrier around its coastline—the Wall. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls trapped amid the rising seas outside. A blend of the most compelling issues of our time—climate change, increasing fear, widening divisions—The Wall is a suspenseful story of love, trust, and survival.
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The headaches vanish the same morning the world does.
The Last
Dystopian · Horror · Post-Apocalyptic
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The headaches vanish the same morning the world does. In The Last, comic book artist Amo wakes from a mysterious illness to find America silent except for the dead roaming its cities. Alone in a collapsing world, he fights his way out of New York while trying to understand why he survived and what the undead truly are.
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7 billion zombies. 1 man alive.
One year ago talented comic book artist Amo fell into a mysterious coma and almost died. It left him with crushing day-long headaches, until one morning the pain is simply gone - along with every living soul in America.
Planes spiral out of the sky. Zombies rampage through the streets of New York.
Amo is alone, maybe the last man alive in this vicious new world. Just to get out of New York alive, he must slaughter the dead on an unimaginable scale. Good thing he has a great imagination.
But the zombies carry a secret. They are not what they seem, and soon everything will change...
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The oceans have vanished, leaving a broken world where survival depends on constant movement.
Barren Waters
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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The oceans have vanished, leaving a broken world where survival depends on constant movement. In Barren Waters, Jeremy Colt travels across a desolate America with his daughter Sam, racing toward the one place that might hold the medicine she needs to live. With supplies fading and danger closing in, their journey becomes a test of endurance, sacrifice, and the limits of a father’s resolve.
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In a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, how far will a father go to save his daughter’s life?
In a world ravaged by the collapse of Earth's oceans, humanity teeters on the brink of survival. Jeremy Colt is a father driven by an unyielding determination to protect his daughter, Sam. With only their bikes and the packs on their backs, they must reach San Diego before her medicine runs out. With resources dwindling and danger lurking at every turn, their journey westward through a fractured America is a desperate bid to find the one place that might hold the key to Sam’s survival.
Haunted by the sacrifices of those he’s loved and lost, Jeremy wrestles with the weight of his choices, the crushing uncertainty of hope, and the shadow of his own humanity. Together with Seth, a resilient boy who’s become like family, they traverse fire-scorched deserts, abandoned towns, and treacherous landscapes in search of a future that may not exist.
The clock is ticking.
Can they get there fast enough?
And if they do, will it even save her?
BARREN WATERS, the Hollywood Book Festival’s Best Science Fiction Novel of 2017, is a gripping tale of resilience, sacrifice, and the enduring power of love. As Jeremy, Sam, and Seth face impossible odds, they must confront the question: what does it truly mean to survive, and how far will they go to protect the ones they love?
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