30 Results in the "Dystopian" category


    • Brave New World Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In Brave New World, Aldous Hux­ley crafts a chill­ing vision of a ​dystopi­an future​ where soci­ety is engi­neered for sta­bil­i­ty and super­fi­cial hap­pi­ness. Set in ​Lon­don, 2540 AD, humans are no longer born but ​grown in lab­o­ra­to­ries, genet­i­cal­ly designed and psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly con­di­tioned to fit into rigid castes: ​Alphas, Betas, Gam­mas, Deltas, and Epsilons. The World State enforces con­for­mi­ty through: ​Soma: A drug that numbs emo­tions…
    • The Fifth Season Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin The Fifth Sea­son is the first book in N. K. Jemisin’s ground­break­ing Bro­ken Earth tril­o­gy, a mas­ter­piece that rede­fines epic fan­ta­sy. Set on a super­con­ti­nent called the Still­ness, where cat­a­stroph­ic cli­mate dis­as­ters (known as “Fifth Sea­sons”) reg­u­lar­ly dev­as­tate civ­i­liza­tion, the sto­ry fol­lows three inter­twined nar­ra­tives: ​Essun, a woman search­ing for her miss­ing daugh­ter in a world col­laps­ing into chaos. ​Damaya, a young girl with dan­ger­ous pow­ers, tak­en…
    • The Children of Men Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Chil­dren of Men, P.D. James crafts a haunt­ing dystopi­an vision set in ​2021, where human­i­ty faces extinc­tion after decades of glob­al infer­til­i­ty. The last gen­er­a­tion born, the ​Omegas, are now adults, and soci­ety has descend­ed into despair under the author­i­tar­i­an rule of ​The War­den of Eng­land, Xan Lyp­pi­att. Theo Faron, a dis­il­lu­sioned Oxford pro­fes­sor and cousin to the War­den, is drawn into a…
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    • Legend (Legend #1) Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Leg­end is the elec­tri­fy­ing first install­ment in Marie Lu’s best­selling dystopi­an tril­o­gy, set in a war-torn future where the Unit­ed States has frac­tured into two war­ring nations: the oppres­sive Repub­lic and the rebel­lious Colonies. The sto­ry unfolds through the dual per­spec­tives of two unfor­get­table pro­tag­o­nists: ​June Iparis, a 15-year-old mil­i­tary prodi­gy from the Republic’s elite, groomed for suc­cess and loy­al­ty to the regime. ​Day, the…
    • The Chrysalids Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Chrysalids, John Wyn­d­ham crafts a chill­ing post-apoc­a­lyp­tic world where ​genet­ic puri­ty​ is enforced with reli­gious fer­vor. Set in ​Waknuk, a farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty in a radi­a­tion-scarred future, the sto­ry fol­lows ​David Strorm, a boy who hides a dan­ger­ous secret: he pos­sess­es ​tele­path­ic abil­i­ties—a muta­tion pun­ish­able by exile or death in his rigid soci­ety. When David befriends ​Sophie, a girl with an extra toe, and…
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