30 Results in the "Dystopian" category


    • The Maze Runner Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Maze Run­ner, ​Thomas​ wakes up in a mys­te­ri­ous met­al ele­va­tor with no mem­o­ry of his past, arriv­ing in the ​Glade—a seclud­ed clear­ing sur­round­ed by tow­er­ing stone walls. The Glade is home to a group of teenage boys who have formed a frag­ile soci­ety, sur­viv­ing while trapped in the cen­ter of a dead­ly, ever-chang­ing ​Maze. Every day, the ​Run­ners​ risk their lives nav­i­gat­ing the…
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      Animal Farm

      Animal Farm Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Ani­mal Farm (1945) is a satir­i­cal ​alle­gor­i­cal novel­la​ by George Orwell that cri­tiques total­i­tar­i­an­ism, par­tic­u­lar­ly Stal­in­ism, through the lens of a farm where ani­mals over­throw their human oppres­sors. The sto­ry begins with the ani­mals of Manor Farm rebelling against their exploita­tive own­er, Mr. Jones, inspired by the ideals of Old Major (a pig rep­re­sent­ing Karl Marx/Lenin). They estab­lish a new soci­ety based on equal­i­ty, sum­ma­rized…
    • 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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