dystopias

"After sheltering an injured boy from a typhoon, gifted ecology student Shion finds his life thrown into chaos as he begins to discover the appalling secrets behind the superficial perfection of No. 6, the computerized metropolis he calls home"--OCLC.

Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order whose function is to breed.

Katherine lives in a post-apocalyptic community completely cut off from the rest of the world and when her best friend's sister Serenity suddenly disappears, Katherine must break out of town to find her.

After Louisa, Evelyn, and Rosie rescue Maddie from the Alliance and discover that Maddie's mother is the leader of the Resistance, the girls embark on a journey to find the Resistance headquarters despite the remaining threat of the Alliance and the disappearance of members of their group in rubble-strewn Chicago.

William and Molly, father and daughter, live in a city ruled by fear after an uprising that took their wife and mother. Although police enforce a curfew with daily arrests, William gets a tip about the disappearance of his wife. He risks everything to venture out after dark, leaving Molly with the neighbors, to solve the mystery.

Three best friends--Evelyn, Rosie, and Louisa--team up to find their fourth counterpart, Maddie, after she is taken in by the authorities for not having identification papers, but Evelyn is certain there is more to the story and tries to convince her friends to follow her theories.

In a regimented future world under the all-seeing eye of the Benefactor, nameless survivors of a devastating war live out lives devoid of emotion.

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.

In a toxic world, a community lives underground, when Sheriff Holston asks to leave and go outside, mechanic Juliette is appointed as the new sheriff and learns how badly her world is broken.

In this collection of original and rediscovered stories of tragedy and hope, the diverse stars are students, street kids, "good girls," kidnappers, and child laborers pitted against their environments, their governments, and sometimes one another as they seek answers in their dystopian worlds.