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Crisis by Kurt Schlichter
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKelly Turnbull, the hero of PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC, INDIAN COUNTRY, WILDFIRE, and COLLAPSE, is back this fifth novel that tells the story of how America split apart into red and blue...Categorized as:
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1984 by George Orwell
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsWinston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world with love. But it's dangerous: love for another person can be punished by death - and Big Brother is always watching.Orwell's classic story shows that there is no freedom unless ideas and beliefs can be questioned... -
The Earth Dwellers by David Estes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Earth Dwellers is the 4th book in BOTH The Dwellers Saga and The Country Saga. The author recommends that BOTH series are read in their entirety before reading this book (The Moon Dwellers, The Star Dwellers, The Sun Dwellers, Fire Country, Ice Country, Water Storm Country)... -
Company by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOut here on the edge of sector eight, I can be alone with my thoughts. Sometimes, this isn't a good thing... -
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Visitor by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe worst part about having it all, is having it all taken away... -
After the Revolution by Robert Evans
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter the Revolution is a novel about North America, roughly twenty years after the collapse of the old United States. In the Republic of Texas, a failing Libertarian rump state, a Christian dominionist militia suddenly sweeps into power, disrupting the lives of our three protagonists.Robert Evans is a conflict journalist who has reported on civil wars in Iraq, Syria and Ukraine... -
A Rap Upon Heaven's Gate by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe wind is in our faces. Our voices are lost in the sand.My people are buried. My loved ones are gone. If only you could hear our plight.Listen: I am coming. You will hear me...Categorized as:
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I Am Not a Number by Lisa Heathfield
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe powerful and heart-wrenching new novel from Lisa Heathfield, award-winning author of Seed and Paper Butterflies. Perfect for fans of Sarah Crossan, Louise O'Neill and Lisa Williamson.The Traditionals have been voted to lead the country, winning people over with talks of healing a broken society, of stronger families and safer streets. They promised a happier future for everyone... -
Bounty by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI live in a tin can out on the edge of sector eight. Not much is supposed to happen here. Ships are supposed to fly by at twenty times the speed of light. My beacon is supposed to keep them safe. Things don't always go like they're supposed to... -
Choice by Jodi Picoult, Thérèse Plummer
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsListening Length: 38 minutesIn this thought-provoking short, #1 New York Times best-selling and award-winning author Jodi Picoult explores a dystopian crisis through the pinhole lens of an ex-couple experiencing an unwanted pregnancy.Margot and James are broken up—for good this time. James made sure of it when he dropped the bomb on Margot: that he doesn’t want kids, ever... -
QualityLand 2.0 by Marc-Uwe Kling
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKikis GeheimnisZurück in die Zukunft! Die große dystopische Erzählung geht weiter ...Schwer was los in QualityLand, dem besten aller möglichen Länder. Peter Arbeitsloser darf endlich als Maschinentherapeut arbeiten und schlägt sich jetzt mit den Beziehungsproblemen von Haushaltsgeräten herum... -
Geometry for Ocelots by Exurb1a
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIt is the end of history and all is known, or will be soon. Humanity long ago transitioned to the era of holy technology. Now humans present as saintly animals, spending their days in meditation and drug-induced euphoria, far from the dark secrets their paradise is founded upon... -
The Insecure Mind of Sergei Kraev by Eric Silberstein
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMath is perfect; people are not.The year is 2100 and the chaos of the early Internet era is long behind us. Mathematical proof ensures that neural implants can’t be hacked, and the Board of Reality Overseers blocks false information from spreading... -
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 by Harold Bloom
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsContains essays by Wayne L. Johnson, Donald Watt, William F. Touponce, Susan Spencer, and others discussing the novel as it relates to cultural history... -
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Raging Light by Kyla Stone
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSafety is within their reach--but at what cost?Amelia fled to the Sanctuary, desperate for the cure to the Hydra virus. She finds safety in the walled enclave, and the promise of a luxurious life she thought she'd lost forever. She can have it all--if she's willing to betray the people she loves.Offered the vengeance he's always longed for, Gabriel faces his own terrible crucible... -
Pet Rocks by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's been a week since the cargo ship was lost on my watch. A week with very little sleep and not much appetite. Now the bio scanner is picking up some sign of life out there in the wreckage, and it's my duty to go see what it is. Maybe I'm not as alone out here as I thought. And maybe I don't want to be... -
Water & Storm Country by David Estes
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsHuck Jones, the son of the admiral of the Soaker fleet, has a legacy to live up to. Haunted by the distorted memories of his mother's untimely death, he must face his demons and the man who raised him as he strives to take the courageous step forward into manhood...Categorized as:
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15 Miles From Home by P.A. Glaspy
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThey said it wasn't possible. It shouldn't have happened. Yet it did. The world as they knew it was gone. Technology all but disappeared. Everything that defined their modern lives dead in one big flash. No more luxuries, only survival. Now if they can just figure out how to do that... -
Light Of A Thousand Stars by Siobhan Davis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAriana Skyee has been the center of Zane Anders’ world for years. They got together as a couple ten months ago, so Zane finally has the girl of his dreams. Life should be peachy. But it isn’t.Haunted by a shared secret that threatens to destroy their relationship and claim their sanity, Zane is on a one-man mission to prevent Ari from falling apart... -
Exile Hunter by Preston Fleming
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Pure energy in print form, whether the characters are being pursued or simply talking; Fleming has proven himself a craftsman.” KIRKUS REVIEWS“As with all of Preston Fleming's previous books, EXILE HUNTER weaves together the harsh realities of personal betrayal, physical torment, emotional pain, and a spiritual quest with astute intelligence.” BOOKPLEASURES... -
Borderless by Eliot Peper
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsInformation is power, and whoever controls the feed rules the world in this all-too-plausible follow-up to the science fiction thriller Bandwidth.Exiled from Washington after a covert operation gone wrong, Diana is building a new life as a freelance spy, though her obsessive secrecy is driving away the few friends and allies she can count on... -
Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsIn the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you?Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society... -
Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHere are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and economic visions of the world today and its near—all too near—future.Unauthorized Bread is a tale of immigration, toxic economic stratification and a young woman's perilously illegal quest to fix a broken toaster...Categorized as:
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Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children by Robert A. Heinlein
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsRevolt in 2100: After the fall of the American Ayatollahs (as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land) there is a Second American Revolution; for the first time in human history there is a land with Liberty and Justice for All. Methuselah's Children: Americans are fiercely proud of the freedom they seized in Revolt in 2100. Nothing could make them forswear it... -
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Into the Shadows by Glenn Beck, Harriet Parke
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe sequel to Agenda 21, from #1 New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck. “I knew those men were our enemies, but they, like everyone else in the Republic, were nothing more than servants. Rule followers. They had no choice. But I did. I had a choice and I made it. I knew then and there that, no matter what happened, I would never go back. Never... -
Escape Attempt by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsContents (three short novels):Escape AttemptThe Kid From HellSpace... -
Zero Day Code by John Birmingham
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsEvery modern city has one week’s worth of food to feed itself. Then it will collapse. Cut off the resources to New York, Sydney, or even a mid-size metropolis, and millions will soon starve. In Zero Day Code we see those immense and open, hyper-complex, networked supercities of the new millennium die... -
Eumeswil by Ernst Jünger
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOriginally published in Germany in 1977, when Junger was eighty-two years old, Eumeswil is the great novel of Junger's creative maturity, a masterpiece by a central figure in modern German literature. Eumeswil is a utopian state ruled by the Condor, a general who has installed himself as a dictator and who dominates the capital from a guarded citadel atop a hill - the Casbah... -
Breach by Eliot Peper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA hacker is drawn out of hiding and into an epic geopolitical showdown in the frighteningly plausible conclusion to Eliot Peper’s critically acclaimed Analog Series. When you’ve betrayed your revolutionary cadre, an off-grid fight club on a remote tropical island is a good place to hide—or die.For notorious ex-hacker Emily Kim, the outcome of each fight makes little difference... -
Wool Gathering by W.J. Davies, Ann Christy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLong after the dust has settled and the survivors of the Silo Saga have gone to seed, Hugh Howey's bestselling WOOL trilogy continues to captivate readers worldwide. The power of Hugh's story is underscored all the more by the number of authors who have embraced the invitation to tell their own stories in his ever-expanding world... -
Eden Collapsing by Shade Owens
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer paradise is collapsing, and she’ll do just about anything to salvage what remains. Following Eden’s mass migration to a new haven ruled by an old friend, Eve struggles with her loss of power and is driven by an insatiable thirst to gain control over this new paradise. Meanwhile, Gabriel attempts to cope with the ghosts of his past and becomes too unstable to live among the others... -
Birthright: The Book of Man by Mike Resnick
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings14 years ago, Mike Resnick created a carefully constructed blueprint of Mankind's history -- social, political, economic, scientific, and religious -- for the next 18,000 years! A new foreword by best-selling author Raymond E. Feist and a chronology of Resnick's "Birthright Universe... -
Overdrawn by N.J. Crosskey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHenry Morris is watching his wife slip away from him. In an ageist society, where euthanasia is encouraged as a patriotic act, dementia is no longer tolerated.Kaitlyn, a young waitress, is desperate for the funds to keep her brother’s life support machine switched on... -
Disclose by Joelle Charbonneau
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeri Buckley—or Meri Adams, as her new ID labels her—has lost everything.Her mother to a fight much bigger than herself. Her father to grief, fear, and denial. And the truth—to an overbearing government that insists that censorship and secrecy are the only path to peace... -
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The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance... -
WWW: Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWebmind-the vast consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web-has proven its worth to humanity by aiding in everything from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the brass at the Pentagon see Webmind as a threat that needs to be eliminated... -
The Auction by Elci North
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a society where babies have become a source of government income, laws designed to push up the birth rate are enacted that strip women of the most basic of human rights: The right to choose when to have a child, the right to choose who to marry, and the right to raise her biological child... -
Animal Farm by Ian Wooldridge, George Orwell
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGeorge Orwell’s 1945 satire on the perils of Stalinism has proved magnificently long-lived as a parable about totalitarianism anywhere—and has given the world at least one immortal phrase: “Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others... -
Eden Falling by Shade Owens
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSix years ago, modern civilization perished in America’s deadliest gender war.Now, despite her unstable mental state, Eve Malum continues to rule over Eden, a society of women governed by one rule: men are forbidden from entering... -
Universal Love by Alexander Weinstein
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the technological hyper-age, from Alexander Weinstein, author of Children of the New World. Universal Love welcomes readers to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another...Categorized as:
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R.U.R. / War with the Newts by Karel Čapek
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwo dystopian satires from one of the most distinguished writers of 20th-century European science fiction. R.U.R. is the work that first introduced the word 'robot' into popular usage.Written against the background of the rise of Nazism, War With the Newts concerns the discovery in the South Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, which is enslaved and exploited by mankind... -
Resistance by Richard Stephenson
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBook two in the New America Series.Eighteen months after the Collapse of 2027, the former United States is divided. On one side is the evil and tyrannical Unified American Empire, controlled by President Simon Sterling, the man responsible for the death of the last legitimate president, Malcolm Powers... -
Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against by Hugh Howey, Gary Whitta
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe arc of history is unpredictable, and no one knows where it's headed. But that's never stopped speculative fiction writers from shouting out a warning.Join twenty-seven of today's top science fiction authors as they write about possible tomorrows we hope to avoid, drawing on challenges taken from today's headlines... -
Low Flying Aircraft And Other Stories by J.G. Ballard
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:The Ultimate CityLow-Flying AircraftThe Dead AstronautMy Dream of Flying to Wake IslandThe Life and Death of GodThe Greatest Television Show on EarthA Place and a Time to DieThe Comsat AngelsThe Beach... -
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Android: Golem by Mel Odom
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a talented New Angeles Detective wakes up in bed with a woman whose name he can't recall, this seemingly harmless mystery indicates a much larger problem. After all, as one of the few bioroids in the New Angeles Police Department, Drake 3GI2RC isn't accustomed to forgetting... or even sleeping... -
Mi petición de más espacio by John Hersey
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUna calle en New Haven. Una fila de personas, cuadras de largo, más apretujadas que los subterráneos de las horas pico de los buenos viejos tiempos.Poynter ha estado en la línea desde antes del amanecer, al igual que miles de personas más, apretujadas, esperando su turno en la ventana para presentar sus peticiones individuales... -
Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba by Basma Ghalayini, Mazen Maarouf
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPalestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event – which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes – reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the...Categorized as:
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Fractions: The First Half of The Fall Revolution by Ken MacLeod
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a balkanized future of dizzying possibilities, mercenaries contend with guns as smart as they are, nuclear deterrence is a commodity traded on the open market, teenagers deal in "theologically correct" software for fundamentalists, and anarchists have colonized a planet circling another star...Categorized as:
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Le zoo de Mengele, Tome 3 : Le bassin d'Aphrodite by Gert Nygardshaug by Gert Nygårdshaug
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDen unge kvinnen reiste seg opp og stirret, gned sand fra øyne og kinn og stirret; hun så maltrakterte kropper, kroppsdeler og blod, det dampet rødt fra den varme sanden og riksene skrek hest på den blå himmelen, hun vendte seg bort for ikke å se mer, men oppdaget plutselig en bevegelse midt i smuget; en av soldatene levde! han kom krypende mot henne med blodig ansikt og den ene foten avrevet,... -
Printcrime by Cory Doctorow
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsFree download, all ebook formats.Short Story, near future science fiction."The coppers came through the door with truncheons swinging, one of them reciting the terms of the warrant through a bullhorn...
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