dystopias

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The giver

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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The handmaid's tale

Set in the Republic of Gilead, the former United States, during the late twentieth century. The declining birth rates caused by the effects of nuclear fallout and the AIDS epidemic result in a new social structure where all young women who can bear healthy children, are allocated to powerful regime men. This is the story of one of these young women.
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Angelic

Centuries after artificial intelligence takes over the Earth and humans are wiped out, the only living things left are three classes of genetically modified animals. One young female winged monkey, Qora, tries to make sense of what has happened and escape her rigid society in order to explore, learn, and live freely.
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The time machine

An explorer travels to the future, viewing society thousands of years in the future from the late 19th century.
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The handmaid's tale

In a future society where most of the women are infertile, Kate is a fertile woman forced to bear a child for a high-ranking military official and his wife.

1984

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

Burning kingdoms

After Morgan Stockhour and her friends escape Internment, she discovers that life on the ground is not safer, and that, perhaps, going over the edge has led her to madness.

Broken crowns

With their utopia threatened by the war on the ground and the greed of two kings, Morgan and the others from Internment must find a way to save the city.

Across the universe

Amy, having been cryogenically frozen and placed onboard a spaceship which was supposed to land on a distant planet three hundred years in the future, is unplugged fifty years too early and finds herself stuck inside an enclosed world ruled by a tyrannical leader and his rebellious teenage heir and confused about who to trust and why someone is trying to kill her.

The giver

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other. He then learns the terrible truth about the Community.

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