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Devil's Divide
World finanical meltdown. US Government hobbled. Citizens scrambling as their country teeters between anarchy and civility. In this "witty", "thought-provoking", "scary" novel we meet Clay Holloway. Not a scrambler but an achiever, he embarks on a dangerous cross-country bicycle odyssey to win back his estranged wife.Against a backdrop of mountains, deserts and memorable characters he grinds eastward. Until, just short of the Mississippi, he meets a man who will change his mission, his life, and the future of the country.Devil's Divide is a sharply-drawn satire about national myth, identity, and the chaos lurking in the complexity of the modern world. Best Dystopian Short Stories
- ASIN: B06XCPL1N6
- ASIN: B06XCPL1N6
- Manufacturer: Iken Press
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of th... [Read More] Best Dystopian Short Stories
- ASIN: 1451673310
- UPC: 642688055004
- ASIN: 1451673310
- ISBN: 9781451673319
- Brand: Simon & Schuster
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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The Handmaid's Tale
#1 New York Times bestseller • Includes a new introduction by Margaret Atwood. An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, coming September 2019. In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom,... [Read More] Best Dystopian Short Stories
- ASIN: 038549081X
- ASIN: 038549081X
- ISBN: 038549081X
- Brand: Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
- Manufacturer: Anchor
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After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia
If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe's wake—whether set in the days after the change, or decades far in the future. New York Times bestselling authors Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Carrie Ryan, Beth Revis, and Jane Yolen are among the many popular and award-winning storytellers lending their talents to this original and spellbinding anthology. Best Dystopian Short Stories
- ASIN: 1423146190
- ASIN: 1423146190
- ISBN: 1423146190
- Manufacturer: Hyperion Book CH
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Animal Farm
George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting ... [Read More] Best Dystopian Short Stories
- ASIN: 0451526341
- ASIN: 0451526341
- ISBN: 9780451526342
- Brand: Orwell, George
- Manufacturer: Signet
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The Tetradome Run
When the crime wave peaked in the early 70s, and Nixon signed the Redemption Act, no one bothered to imagine what public execution might look like fifty years in the future.No one imagined that The Tetradome Run would become the most popular show in America. This year's show puts convicted felons in a race with genetically engineered monstrous creations. Murderers, rapists, terrorists, and thieves--they all will take their place at the starting line, and the most notorious among them is Jenna Duvall, the college student who shot a Senator.Allegedly. Jenna swears she's innocent, and as she runs for her life in the Tetradome, a small-town journalist uncovers a shocking counter-narrative that suggests there is more to Jenna's story than anyone knows.A mashup of dystopian thriller and riveting... [Read More] Best Dystopian Short Stories
- ASIN: B07FT3QZYB
- ASIN: B07FT3QZYB
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Scythe (1) (Arc of a Scythe)
Two teens must learn the “art of killing” in this Printz Honor–winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “art” of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own. Scythe is the first novel of a thrilling new series by National Book Award–winning author Neal Shusterman in which Citra and Row... [Read More] Best Dystopian Short Stories
- ASIN: 144247243X
- ASIN: 144247243X
- ISBN: 144247243X
- Brand: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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Station Eleven
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. A National Book Award FinalistA PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves T... [Read More] Best Dystopian Short Stories
- ASIN: 0804172447
- ASIN: 0804172447
- ISBN: 0804172447
- Brand: Emily St John Mandel
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Numbers Game (Numbers Game Saga Book 1)
A citizen girl someone's trying to kill.A hot military slave with a mysterious past.A dangerous game that changes everything. In futuristic America, everyone wears a number. Treena's prepared for Rating Day her entire life--she's a top contender in Level Three school with a highly-rated boyfriend. But when her number is announced, it shocks everyone. To get her life and boyfriend back, Treena must go undercover and expose a military spy. Except that someone wants her dead. And then there's Vance, the mysterious soldier with a haunted past and gorgeous brown eyes. Together they discover a dark numbers conspiracy, one that shatters the nation's future. Treena must join up with Vance if she is to survive the dangerous game of numbers--and the terrible war that rages within her heart. From... [Read More] Best Dystopian Short Stories
- ASIN: B00UKDWTPG
- ASIN: B00UKDWTPG
- Manufacturer: Diamond Patch Press
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The Girl in the Box Series, Books 1-3: Alone, Untouched and Soulless
From Million-Selling Author Robert J. Crane...Her mother is missing. A psychotic beast is stalking her. How will she escape?AloneSienna Nealon was a 17 year-old girl who had been held prisoner in her own house by her mother for twelve years. Then one day her mother vanished, and Sienna woke up to find two strange men in her home. On the run, unsure of who to turn to and discovering she possesses mysterious powers, Sienna finds herself pursued by a shadowy agency known as the Directorate and hunted by a vicious, bloodthirsty psychopath named Wolfe, each of which is determined to capture her for their own purposes...UntouchedStill haunted by her last encounter with Wolfe and searching for her mother, Sienna Nealon must put aside her personal struggles when a new threat emerges – Aleksandr ... [Read More] Best Dystopian Short Stories
- ASIN: B00IJYII4E
- ASIN: B00IJYII4E
- Manufacturer: Ostiagard Press
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The Best American Short Stories 2018
Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short Best Dystopian Short Stories Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.” The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a
- UPC: 746152764
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The Best American Short Stories 2005
The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Short Stories 2005 includesDennis Lehane • Tom Perrotta • Alice Munro • Edward P. Jones • Joy Williams Best Dystopian Short Stories The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.The Best American Short Stories 2005 includesDennis Lehane • Tom Perrotta • Alice Munro • Edward P. Jones • Joy Williams •
- UPC: 34682001
- Rating: 3.75
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9781420938036 Best Dystopian Short Stories The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- UPC: 21019188
- Rating: 4.25
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The Best American Short Stories 2017
Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short Best Dystopian Short Stories Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome,” writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you’ll find a man with a boyfriend and
- UPC: 55971052
- Rating: 5.0
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The Best American Short Stories 2009
The oldest and bestselling Best American, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2009 will be selected by Alice Sebold, author of the bestseller THE LOVELY Best Dystopian Short Stories Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best
- UPC: 10976107
- Rating: 3.5
Dystopian Fiction: How Stories Transform Your Mind
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"Being Pretty" | Dystopian Animated Short Film (2017)
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Tips For Writing Dystopian (featuring WritingMime!)
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