dystopias

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Enclave

2011
In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong--and dangerous.

When she woke

a novel
2011
Hannah Payne has devoted her life to her church and family, but when she is accused of murdering her unborn child and turned into a Chrome, transplanted into a new body that matches the color classification of her crime--red for murder--and left in a bare room where cameras broadcast her every move to the public for their entertainment, Hannah vows to protect the identity of her child's father, a public figure who would be ruined if their affair is revealed.

1984

a novel
1977
Depicts life in a totalitarian regime of the future.

Nineteen eighty-four

a novel
2003
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.

Brave new world

2006
A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, a world in which babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped.

Under the Empyrean sky

Cael McAvoy, living in the corn-overrun Heartland below extravagant sky flotillas, grows tired of scavenging and living in the Empyrean Empire's shadow and vows to do something to change his lot in life.

Scrivener's moon

2012
When she returns home after two years, Fever finds that her Scriven mother's creation, New London--the city on wheels--is nearly complete and ready to fight the nomad tribes of Britain, and Fever must journey to the north to find the ancient birthplace of the Scriven mutants and solve the mystery of her own past.

The silenced

2007
Consigned to a prison-like Youth Training Facility because of her parents' political activities, Marena organizes a resistance movement to combat the restrictive policies of the ruling Zero Tolerance party.

The other side of the island

2008
Honor, living with her mom and dad on Island 365 in the Tranquil Sea, an environment controlled by the Earth Mother corporation in a post-apocalyptic world, becomes more fearful as she grows older and realizes that her nonconformist parents are putting the entire family at risk.

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