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Dystopian Fiction April 2021
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Who fears death
by Nnedi Okorafor
"Born into post-apocalyptic Africa by a mother who was raped after the slaughter of her entire tribe, Onyesonwu is tutored by a shaman and discovers that her magical destiny is to end the genocide of her people. "
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The book of the unnamed midwife
by Meg Elison
Philip K. Dick Award Winner for Distinguished Science Fiction When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population--killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant--the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power--and the strong who possess it. A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining. To preserve her freedom, she dons men's clothing, goes by false names, and avoids as many people as possible. But asthe world continues to grapple with its terrible circumstances, she'll discover a role greater than chasing a pale imitation of independence. After all, if humanity is to be reborn, someone must be its guide
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Last ones left alive
by Sarah Davis-Goff
Secluded on an island off Western Ireland, Orpen begins training to fight the skrake, powerful and crazed, flesh-eating zombies that have been devouring the country and must head to the dangerous mainland after her mother is bitten.
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Station eleven : a novel
by Emily St. John Mandel
The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of "King Lear" marks the beginning of the world's dissolution in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates
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Zone one : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
In a post-apocalyptic world decimated by zombies, survivor efforts to rebuild are focused on Manhattan, where civilian Mark Spitz works to eliminate infected stragglers and remembers his experiences at the height of the zombie plague
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It can't happen here by Sinclair LewisIt is 1936. America has just elected Berzelius Windrip to the presidency-and his fascist policies turn the U.S. into a totalitarian state.
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Upright women wanted by Sarah GaileyA near-future exploration of queer identity, written in the style of a pulp western, finds a woman stowing away to escape her arranged marriage to a man who was once engaged to the late best friend she secretly loved.
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The new wilderness : a novel
by Diane Cook
A first novel by the author of Man V. Nature finds a desperate mother in a world ravaged by climate change joining a hunter-gatherer initiative to test humanity's capacity to survive in the wilderness without destroying it. 25,000 first printing
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Riot baby
by Tochi Onyebuchi
The author of the award-winning young-adult novel Beasts Made of Night tackles youth, race and the carceral state with magical flair, in his adult-science-fiction debut.
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All the birds in the sky
by Charlie Jane Anders
Reunited as adults in the hipster mecca San Francisco as the planet falls apart around them, childhood friends Patricia Delfine, who is magically gifted, and Laurence Armstead, an engineering genius, discover that something bigger than either of them has brought them together to either save the world, or plunge it into a new dark ages.
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Future home of the living god : a novel
by Louise Erdrich
A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows the efforts of a pregnant woman who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species. (dystopian). Simultaneous.
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Goldilocks
by Laura Lam
Five women spearhead a mission to find somewhere humanity can survive in the Goldilocks Zone, but someone on board is concealing a terrible secret
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The memory police
by Yōko Ogawa
An Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance finds a young novelist hiding her editor from mysterious authorities who would erase all memories of people who once existed
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Parable of the sower
by Octavia E Butler
"In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages."
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The road
by Cormac McCarthy
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity. 250,000 first printing.
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