30 Results in the "Dystopian" category


    • The Scorch Trials Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Scorch Tri­als, the sec­ond install­ment of the Maze Run­ner series, ​Thomas​ and his fel­low Gladers emerge from the dead­ly Maze—only to face an even dead­lier chal­lenge. Thrust into a des­o­late waste­land known as the ​Scorch, they must cross a ​sun-blast­ed, dis­ease-rav­aged​ land­scape to reach a promised safe haven with­in ​two weeks. But the ​Scorch​ hides hor­rors worse than the Maze: ​Cranks, zom­bie-like vic­tims of the…
    • 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…
    • 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…
    • 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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    • Never Let Me Go Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In Nev­er Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishig­uro weaves a haunt­ing and intro­spec­tive tale set in an alter­nate-real­i­ty ​1990s Eng­land, where ​Kathy H.​, a ​car­er, reflects on her child­hood at ​Hail­sham, an idyl­lic yet unset­tling board­ing school. As Kathy reunites with her for­mer class­mates ​Ruth​ and ​Tom­my, she con­fronts the dark truth about their exis­tence: they are ​clones, cre­at­ed sole­ly to pro­vide ​organ dona­tions​ for “nor­mal”…
    • 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…
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