409 Results in the "Science Fiction" category


    • 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”…
    • 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 Hunger Games Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Hunger Games, ​Kat­niss Everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from the impov­er­ished ​Dis­trict 12, vol­un­teers to take her younger sister’s place in the ​annu­al Hunger Games—a tele­vised fight to the death between 24 chil­dren, orches­trat­ed by the tyran­ni­cal ​Capi­tol​ to sup­press rebel­lion in ​Panem, the dystopi­an remains of North Amer­i­ca. Thrust into the ​are­na​ with fel­low trib­ute ​Pee­ta Mel­lark, Kat­niss must use her ​hunt­ing skills,…
    • The Death Cure Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Death Cure, the har­row­ing con­clu­sion to the Maze Run­ner tril­o­gy, ​Thomas​ and his friends escape WICKED’s control—only to dis­cov­er the organization’s exper­i­ments were just the begin­ning. The ​Flare virus​ is spread­ing uncon­trol­lably, turn­ing human­i­ty into mind­less, can­ni­bal­is­tic ​Cranks. WICKED claims they’ve found a cure, but at a hor­rif­ic cost: the sur­vivors of the Tri­als must ​sur­ren­der their mem­o­ries​ per­ma­nent­ly. Thomas refus­es, lead­ing a rebel­lion against…
    • 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 Fever Code Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin The Fever Code is the ​pre­quel​ to the Maze Run­ner series, reveal­ing the ori­gins of the Glade, the Maze, and the dev­as­tat­ing ​Flare virus. Set before the events of The Maze Run­ner, this nov­el fol­lows ​Thomas​ and ​Tere­sa​ as chil­dren, recruit­ed by the shad­owy orga­ni­za­tion ​WICKED​ to find a cure for the Flare—a dead­ly pan­dem­ic that dri­ves peo­ple to mad­ness. As WICKED’s exper­i­ments grow more bru­tal, Thomas and…
    • 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 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…
    • 1986 — Orson Scott Card — Ender’s Game Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Ender’s Game is a ground­break­ing sci­ence fic­tion nov­el that fol­lows ​Andrew “Ender” Wig­gin, a bril­liant child recruit­ed into ​Bat­tle School, an orbital mil­i­tary acad­e­my where gift­ed chil­dren are trained to com­mand Earth­’s defens­es against an alien race called the ​Formics​ (or “Bug­gers”). Under the ruth­less tute­lage of ​Colonel Graff, Ender excels in sim­u­lat­ed war games, mas­ter­ing strat­e­gy and leadership—but at a dev­as­tat­ing psy­cho­log­i­cal cost. As…
    • The Stone Sky Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin The Stone Sky is the explo­sive, Hugo Award-win­ning con­clu­sion to N.K. Jemisin’s ground­break­ing Bro­ken Earth trilogy—the first series in his­to­ry to win three con­sec­u­tive Hugo Awards for Best Nov­el. As the Fifth Season’s apoc­a­lyp­tic dev­as­ta­tion reach­es its peak, the sto­ry con­verges on two women whose choic­es will deter­mine the fate of the Still­ness: ​Essun, the oro­gene moth­er turned rev­o­lu­tion­ary, who must wield the pow­er of the Obelisk…
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