dystopian fiction

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dystopian fiction

Red rising

Darrow, a Red, which is the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future, joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy after witnessing the execution of his wife.

Our missing hearts

a novel
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives with his father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library, and they try to keep their heads down and avoid outside attention. When libraries are forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic, including the work of Bird's mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old, Bird tries to ignore it completely. But when he receives a cryptic drawing, he finds himself embarking on an adventure to find her. He soon learns more about the reasons behind his mother's disappearance, but his journey also opens his eyes to the reality of the world around him.

Brave new world

Bernard Marx, a citizen in a utopian World-State where babies are born in laboratories, there is no violence, all citizens take drugs for depression, and contentment overrides the free will of the populace, embarks on a tragic search for truth after he begins to feel something is missing from life.

Above the sky

"Eighteen-year-old Seven and her best friend, Ten, live where all is peaceful ... except for the violent war raging above the sky. Lifelike humanoid robots and self-operated drones tend to everyone's needs, leaving people free to spend their time stimulating their minds and enjoying life'spleasures. But there are strict rules and few choices. Everyyear, on Assignment Day, the path of each eighteen-year-old's life is laid out. Some are given the jobs for which they have shown exceptional aptitude and are "paired" for mating. The others are sent off to fight in TheWar and never return. When Assignment Day comes for Seven, the assignments shatter everything she's ever believed. The rules force everyone to accept their fates, but Seven decides to do something unprecedented: to go against the Decision Makers' wishes"--Back cover.

Junior Braves of the apocalypse

In a zombie wasteland of unknown origin, Troop 65 marshals onwards in the hopes of finding their families in Seattle, the nearest logical evacuation location. After a difficult journey by land and river, they make a stop in a suburban town that serves as ground zero of a battle between a corporate office that may have caused the apocalypse and the survivors staying in a nearby casino.

The Adjustment

Tatum Masterson did not go through the memory-erasing Program, but her longtime boyfriend Wes did, and like all Returners he came back to school a blank canvas. Tatum still loves him, and slowly the two start building a new love together--then Tatum learns of the Adjustment, a therapy that implants memories from a donor. Tatum can implant her memories of their time together before Wes lost his--but it isn't the same. Tatum will have decide if she can keep living a lie, or love Wes enough to let him go.

The chaperone

"Girls in New America must have a chaperone with them at all times . Because of this, Stella is never alone. She can't go out by herself or learn about the world. She can't even spend time with boys except at formal Visitations. Still, Stella feels lucky that her chaperone, Sister Helen, is like a friend to her. And then the unthinkable happens. Sister Helen dies suddenly, and Stella feels lost. Especially when she's assigned a new chaperone just days later. Sister Laura is...different. She has radical ideas about what Stella should be doing. She leaves Stella alone in public and even knows how to get into the "Hush Hush" parties where all kinds of forbidden things happen. As Stella spends more time with Sister Laura, she begins to question everything she's been taught. What if the Constables' rules don't actually protect girls? What if they were never meant to keep them safe? Once Stella glimpses both real freedom and the dark truths behind New America, she has no choice but to fight back against the world she knows, risking everything to set out on a dangerous journey across what used to be the United States."--Amazon.

Inhuman

Beyond the Titan wall lies the Feral Zone, and the only people who break quarantine and venture there are the "fetches", who are paid exorbitant sums to bring back items that were left behind when the wall went up--but Delaney McEvoy's father is there and she is being forced to find him and bring him back.

The darkest path

Since he was captured by the Glorious Path, a militant religion based on the teachings of a former soldier, fifteen-year-old Cal has served the Path in its brutal war with the remains of the United States government, and tried to survive and protect his younger brother , but when he kills an officer to protect a stray dog, Cal is forced take his brother and the dog and run.

[Alf wa tisu miah wa arbaah wa thamanun]

Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the future political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the totalitarian regime that controls all human thought and action.

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