dystopia

For fifty years, the Key Corporation has defended humanity against a deadly virus that spreads through touch. Lovers don't kiss, or even hold hands. Personal boundaries are valued above all. Break the laws, and you'll face execution. Elodie, a talented young nurse, believes in the mission of the Key and has never questioned the laws that control her life. But Elodie is forced to break the rules when she sets out in search of a terminal patient who goes missing while under her care. From the outside, it seems like Aiden was given everything he could want from the Key--a purpose, an education, and a future. But Aiden knows more than he's letting on, and the dark secrets he's keeping could tear the Key's strict society apart. When Elodie and Aiden's lives collide, the fallout will be devastating. What do you do when the brutal system that once kept you safe hunts you down?.

Ninni Holmqvist's uncanny dystopian novel envisions a society in the not-so-distant future, where women over fifty and men over sixty who are unmarried and childless are sent to a retirement community called the Unit. They're given lavish apartments set amongst beautiful gardens and state-of-the-art facilities; they're fed elaborate gourmet meals, surrounded by others just like them. It's an idyllic place, but there's a catch: the residents--known as dispensables--must donate their organs, one by one, until the final donation. When Dorrit Weger arrives at the Unit, she resigns herself to this fate, seeking only peace in her final days. But she soon falls in love, and this unexpected, improbable happiness throws the future into doubt.

A tale of good and evil, set in a dystopian future and featuring the hedonist, Alex, and his friends who rule the night, while the authorities feign indifference in pursuit of maintaining social order.

Civilization has fallen and humans are desperately fighting to survive. The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year-war of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside the walls, determined to build a new society. But unknown to them, far away in a distant metropolis, he waits: Zero, The First. As the father of the Twelve his hatred continues against humanity and he is determined to annilate their only hope.

The Ward is a futuristic New York City with streets filled with sea water and its poverty-stricken inhabitants suffering from a deadly disease called The Blight. Ren has discovered miraculous spring water that cures The Blight and when she is able to cure her sister, she faces more trouble when Governor Voss kidnaps Aven and an ancient order called the T?tai are determined to protect the healing water that the city needs to survive.

After a daring escape from the scientists who created her, Seraphina and Zen believe they are finally safe from the horrors of her past only to discover that new threats await them.

Eighteen science fiction stories, including "The Other Foot", "Zero Hour," "The Long Rain," "The Rocket Man," "The Last Night of the World," and "The Exiles.".

In a world gone dark, in more ways than a lack of electricity, life goes on for Adam and his fortified neighborhood--but the trade-offs made for safety and security are increasingly wrenching and questionable. When some disasters happen outside their neighborhood, and people are killed, Adam begins to wonder what will happen to them if power is never restored. How long can they last?.

Ever since she was created, Wren has lived with her friends in an Eden created by Dot--but lately she has been troubled by visions of a very different world, and when she meets Dennis who comes from outside, she begins to confront the ugly truth at the heart of paradise.