Dystopian

Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies....

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people....

Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces....

Darrow wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. Lysander au Lune must overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families of the Core and face down Darrow over the skies of war-torn Mercury. But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the balance....

In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days....

A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time....

The thrilling sequel to the beloved worldwide best seller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film....

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith throws the Divers into another action-packed adventure in the final installment of the Hell Divers series.

Isaac Race thought he'd found a new family and home. A new Life. He had, but it's all about to be snatched away....

The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo. But there are always those who hope, who dream....

In the future, when mankind has spread across the stars, the hierarchy of man is dictated by the color of one’s caste.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.

When an EMP attack wipes out the nation’s power grid and communications, college freshman Maddie Langston is forced to run for her life. Stranded in a Chicago airport when the lights go out, Maddie is in a race against time....

The second volume in the New York Times bestselling Silo series. Hugh Howey goes back to show the first days of the Silo, and the beginning of the end....

In the middle of the holidays, a biological attack wreaks havoc on the U.S. The virus is quick. Deadly. Unstoppable. The country is left in tatters. For Isaac Race, it’s especially bitter.

Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn’t trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white—everything is shades of gray....

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations....

Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom....

This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter....

Left for dead on the nightmarish surface of the planet, Commander Michael Everhart and his team of Hell Divers barely escape with their lives aboard a new airship called Deliverance. After learning that Xavier "X" Rodriguez may still be alive, they mount a rescue mission....

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....

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living....

More than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge....

In the near future, when America has become a police state, 100 boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life....

When the External Womb Programme is launched, the news is controversial. Hundreds take to the streets in protest, feeling strongly that growing a baby outside of the human body is "unnatural". But thousands more people rejoice: at last, an alternative for those who wish to have children but worry about the physical toll it may take. A chance that throwing a baby-shaped grenade into one's career path might not derail it entirely.

In the middle of the holidays, a biological attack wreaks havoc on the U.S. The virus is quick. Deadly. Unstoppable. The country is left in tatters. For Isaac Race, it’s especially bitter. After the death of his parents and sister, he was just getting his life back on track - the weaponized virus changes all that. Battered by the fresh deaths of his foster parents, but hardened by the year he’s endured, he emerges from the temporary safety of his home to seek out other survivors during the worst winter in years.

Graham Gooding is a leader at a tech start-up when his brilliant coworker—and work crush—Nessie Locke asks for help testing a new algorithm. Graham jumps at the chance to impress her, and to improve his floundering personal life. He soon discovers that the algo is more powerful than Nessie—or anyone—realizes. It was built to detect lies on the internet, but when Graham makes a small edit to Nessie’s online profile, hoping to see if the program will catch the lie, Nessie changes in real life. The algo can alter the real world. Now, so can Graham.

Maxwell Carter works a maintenance job at a government research facility. The research lab he works at has an accident, more energy coming through the wormhole than anticipated, enough to completely rupture the shields that were supposed to contain it until they finished determining how to convert the energy into electricity. Previously harmless animals are changed to nightmare threats and people are dying, seemingly due to incidents related directly to their interests.

When a black hole suddenly consumes Israel and as similar anomalies spread across the globe, a conspiracy takes hold: will the holes swallow the Jews, or will they swallow the earth? Against a backdrop of antisemitic paranoia, restrictions on Jewish life, and spasms of violence, Ethan and Ella, Jewish citizens of a nameless American city, meet and fall in love. Ella, a photojournalist, documents the changes in daily life, particularly among the city’s Jewish residents.

Alice, the daughter of a wealthy innkeeper in Kilkenny, grows up watching her mother wither under the constraints of family responsibilities—and she vows that she will never suffer the same fate. In time, she discovers she has a flair for making money, and takes her father's flourishing business to new heights. But as her riches and stature grow, so too do rumors about her private life. By the time she marries her fourth husband—the three earlier are dead—a storm of local gossip and resentment culminates in a life-threatening accusation.

Darrell Donnelly and his daughter Laykin embark on their yearly hiking trip to a scenic and remote part of the Ocala National Forest. What started as a long weekend turned into a fight for survival as the hikers attempt to return home in the face of civil unrest and lawlessness, the aftermath of a coordinated attack on the power grid and most electronic devices.

Six months after the Pulse, a catastrophic event that plunged the world into chaos, former carpenter Jason roams the desolate ruins of what was once his suburban haven. Haunted by the loss of his wife and daughter, he clings to a rumor of a safe haven. His solitary existence is shattered when he crosses paths with Jessica, a resilient doctor, and two orphaned boys, Sam and Ben. Together, they navigate the treacherous landscape, their journey punctuated by encounters with desperate scavengers and the chilling remnants of a shattered society. Can the navigate this new world or will their ...

It's been a week without power. No phones, no computers—nothing. The last remnants of humanity are vanishing, replaced by desperation and fear. Gangs are forming, people are starving, and the entire country is descending into chaos. When a global blackout plunges society into chaos, Judy Green's horseback quest becomes a beacon of hope. Amid biting cold and desolate small towns, Judy's 900-mile journey to her Ohio hometown transforms her into a fearless leader.

Author Jay Vickers would like nothing more than to be left alone so he can finish his next book. But "there's something strange going on," as his peculiar neighbor, Horton Flanders, says. The market is filling with new inventions that supposedly last forever-cars, razors, cigarette lighters, and more. Individuals and whole families are disappearing. Soon, even Mr. Flanders vanishes-but not before leaving Vickers a note.

Tom survived the first wave of the virus. He survived the second. Now his biggest problem is the others who survived with him. With civilisation decimated and order broken, Tom must change who he is to survive an evolving world. With those he has vowed to protect, he must commit atrocities that were unthinkable to him just a few short months earlier.

Jeremy, a tech worker who fled the overcrowded Silicon Valley to Austin, found himself navigating a new life after the Great Tech Layoffs of 2023. Trading code for vinyl, he worked in a vintage record store, piecing together a quiet existence. But when the Zombie Apocalypse of 2026 erupts, Austin becomes a battleground of survival. Now, armed with only his wits, a machete, and a few supplies, Jeremy must confront the deadly hordes that have overrun the city. In a world where the undead rule the streets, survival isn't just about outlasting the apocalypse—it's about finding hope in the ruins.

The Empires of Varkal and Med'ariz have always been at war. Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers.

The year is 2250. Earth faces apocalypse, and the future of mankind rests in the Bertram Ramsay Space Station. Home to 9 million souls, but not all of them are friendly. The Acolytes of Gaia are a formidable foe to the men and women charged with Earth’s evacuation. Their murderess intent; to see Earth is destroyed, and mankind with it. Jaxon Leith enters Compression, a three-month internment camp where he will learn to live and work in space. Within days he’s drawn into a fight against humanity’s extinction, as hostile infiltrators threaten certain annihilation.

Two months after the attack that changed their lives forever, Amanda and Jonah are more determined than ever to build a community that comes together for the safety and security of all. They navigate real-world issues amidst apocalyptic dangers and obstacles to find out that friends can exist in the apocalypse.

A brain-rotting virus, which leaves its victims disoriented and hyper-violent, rages out of Cuba into the Florida Keys. The bewildered government destroys the mainland bridge and places the islands under quarantine. Inside this cordon, the population descends into chaos, as rival factions battle over dwindling resources, buildings become fortresses, boats lash together as defensible islands, and whole neighborhoods wall off into armed camps.

Isaac Race pensait avoir trouvé une nouvelle famille et un nouveau foyer. Une nouvelle vie. C'était le cas, mais tout cela est sur le point de lui être arraché. Lorsqu'un ennemi ambitieux lance une attaque sournoise sur les États-Unis, sa vie paisible est brisée. Isaac, solitaire de nature, doit rejoindre un groupe de survivants pour se rendre dans un sanctuaire situé à trois États de là, au cœur d'un hiver rigoureux sur la côte Est.

In einer von einer Seuche heimgesuchten Stadt kann ein Fehler über Leben und Tod entscheiden. James und seine Gruppe schmieden einen Plan, um den Militärkontrollpunkt zu erreichen, aber sie erkennen zu spät, dass die Gefahr nicht nur außerhalb des sicheren Rathauses, sondern auch innerhalb desselben lauert. Heather muss entscheiden, ob sie einer wildfremden Gruppe vertrauen kann, um ihr und ihrer Schwester zu helfen.

Dans un futur lointain, une forme avancée de télépathie, appelée Songlight, a vu le jour. Et à Northheaven, ceux bénéficiant de ce don sont considérés comme des déviants qu’il faut chasser, emprisonner, reformater... Pourtant la rumeur court qu’en dehors des frontières du pays, ce sixième sens est accepté et ceux qui en sont dotés, les Torches, célébrés. Mais à Northheaven, les rumeurs sont ignorées. À Northheaven on suit les règles. Là-bas, les garçons s’enrôlent tôt dans l’armée et les filles... les filles apprennent à tenir une maison et, très jeune, elles épousent des hommes revenus de la guerre, de vingt-ans leurs aînés.

Cassandra, a young corpo programmer, uncovers a plot of technological menticide targeted at the city's oppressed population. Armed only with a stolen data drive containing plans and schematics to this nefarious conspiracy, she must escape the clutches of her corrupt and malevolent employer, ZenithCorp. Run! If she is to stop the rollout of this technology, her only option is survival.

Cleve is a relic hunter scouring the wastelands for rusty gold in the year 2090. Most of civilization has been decimated and Cleve exists hand to mouth, trading with mutants at supply huts to feed himself. Cleve observes a calendar that few acknowledge. Soon, it will be his favorite day: December 25th. This day celebrates the birthday of our savior, Santa Christ. Cleve needs an Xmas miracle. And a gruesome one is heading his way!

Having powers is cool, but not when people with them are being hunted, experimented on, and killed. Jaxon finds that running a university is a great responsibility, as he becomes responsible for saving his friends, and helping the Altereds and Mages from other cities stay alive. To do so, he must put great trust in Rich, the only one with the skills to get the information he needs, but can he really trust Rich when Rich has betrayed them before?

Seren awakens to a mysterious reality, devoid of her past, trapped in a maze where survival is her only escape. But the labyrinth is not her sole adversary; it's the other players that pose the greatest threat. She soon aligns herself with a motley crew of strangers, united by the shared determination to escape their prison. Together, they plunge headlong into a gauntlet of escalating challenges that pit them against the unforgiving environment, the intricate maze, and the ruthless competition of their fellow players.

I welcome you to the most nostalgic story that you'll ever listen to! It warps you to another world which is an utterly retro filled utopia. Once there, you'll be on a rollercoaster that takes you on a non-stop thrill ride and pulls you in even deeper, where even the biggest fans of nostalgia will be amazed and discover things that even they have forgotten about. The story follows our hero Tim. It starts somewhere in a dystopian future, a bleak and baron wasteland of urban decay.

I never wondered if Oliver loved me. The second we met, I knew we belonged together. And I knew Oliver knew it, too. I saw it in his eyes. The eyes I instantly adored. The eyes everyone else feared. After the Al Bot war of 2099, Layla and Oliver fall in love - but their bond is tested by a handsome renegade, an ambitious family, and a covert killer who twists the truth.