http://dystopia.com/ http://dystopia.com/book/time-out-of-joint.html anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/time-out-of-joint.html#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 21:19:45 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/time-out-of-joint.html http://dystopia.com/book/the-three-stigmata-of-palmer-eldritch.html anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/the-three-stigmata-of-palmer-eldritch.html#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 21:17:42 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/the-three-stigmata-of-palmer-eldritch.html http://dystopia.com/book/the-space-merchants.html anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/the-space-merchants.html#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 21:16:11 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/the-space-merchants.html http://dystopia.com/book/battle-royale.html
As part of a ruthless program by the totalitarian government, ninth-grade students are taken to a small isolated island with a map, food, and various weapons. Forced to wear special collars that explode when they break a rule, they must fight each other for three days until only one "winner" remains. The elimination contest becomes the ultimate in must-see reality television.

A Japanese pulp classic available in English for the first time, Battle Royale is a potent allegory of what it means to be young and survive in today's dog-eat-dog world. The first novel by small-town journalist Koushun Takami, it went on to become an even more notorious film by 70-year-old gangster director Kinji Fukusaku.]]> anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/battle-royale.html#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 21:14:27 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/battle-royale.html http://dystopia.com/book/warday.html anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/warday.html#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 21:12:59 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/warday.html http://dystopia.com/book/atlas-shrugged.html anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/atlas-shrugged.html#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 21:09:00 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/atlas-shrugged.html http://dystopia.com/book/stand-on-zanzibar.html anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/stand-on-zanzibar.html#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 21:05:33 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/stand-on-zanzibar.html http://dystopia.com/book/the-trial.html anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/the-trial.html#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 21:03:55 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/the-trial.html http://dystopia.com/book/we.html
One number, D-503, chief architect of the Integral, decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery — or rediscovery — of inner space...and that disease the ancients called the soul.

A page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the beginning.]]> anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/we.html#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 21:01:47 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/we.html http://dystopia.com/book/fatherland.html anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/fatherland.html#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 20:59:29 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/fatherland.html http://dystopia.com/book/snow-crash.html
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about Infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous...you'll recognize it immediately.]]> anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/snow-crash.html#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 04:05:08 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/snow-crash.html http://dystopia.com/book/the-time-machine.html anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/the-time-machine.html#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 04:03:03 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/the-time-machine.html http://dystopia.com/book/the-chrysalids.html
At first he does not question. Then, however, he realizes that the he too is out of the ordinary, in possession of a power that could doom him to death or introduce h im to a new, hitherto unimagined world of freedom.

The Chrysalids is a perfectly conceived and constructed work form the classic era o science fiction, a Voltairean philosophical tale that has as much resonance in our own day, when religious and scientific dogmatism are both on the march, as when it was written during the cold war.]]> anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/the-chrysalids.html#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 04:01:24 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/the-chrysalids.html http://dystopia.com/book/iron-heel.html anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/iron-heel.html#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 03:59:46 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/iron-heel.html http://dystopia.com/book/armageddons-children.html
Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his family's slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilization's downfall. Somewhere ahead of him rests the only chance to beat back the minions of evil that are systematically killing and enslaving the last remnants of humanity. Navigating the scarred and poisoned landscape that once was America and guided by a powerful talisman, Logan has sworn an oath to seek out a remarkable being born of magic, possessed of untold abilities, and destined to lead the final fight against darkness.

Across the country, Angel Perez, herself a survivor of the malevolent, death-dealing forces combing the land, has also been chosen for an uncanny mission in the name of her ruined world's salvation. From the devastated streets of Los Angeles, she will journey to find a place- and a people- shrouded in mystery, celebrated in legend, and vital to the cause of humankind . . . even as a relentless foe follows close behind, bent on her extermination. While in the nearly forsaken city of Seattle, a makeshift family of refugees has carved out a tenuous existence among the street gangs, mutants, and marauders fighting to stay alive against mounting odds- and something unspeakable that has come from the shadows in search of prey.

In time, all their paths will cross. Their common purpose will draw them together. Their courage and convictions will be tested and their fates will be decided, as their singular crusade begins: to take back, or lose forever, the only world they have.

In Armageddon's Children, Brooks brings his gifts as a mythmaker to the timeless theme of the unending, essential conflict between darkness and light-and carries his unique imaginative vision to a stunning new level. Prepare for a breathtaking tour de force. To those who are new to Terry Brooks, welcome. And to those who have read him for many years: prepare for a dramatic surprise.]]> anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/armageddons-children.html#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 03:57:16 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/armageddons-children.html http://dystopia.com/book/a-scanner-darkly.html
Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick's industrial-grade stress test of identity is as unnerving as it is enthralling.]]> anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/a-scanner-darkly.html#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 03:49:35 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/a-scanner-darkly.html http://dystopia.com/book/the-running-man.html
In 2025, the world is sliding towards ruin. Darkness and paranoia rule the day as economies collapse and violence escalates. In this madness, Ben Richards is about to take the biggest risk of his life to save his family. He is about to play the world's deadliest game â?? where he must survive for thirty days â?? for one billion dollars. All alone, hunted everywhere he goes, Richards knows only one thing...he must keep running.]]> anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/the-running-man.html#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 03:47:08 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/the-running-man.html http://dystopia.com/book/neuromancer.html anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/neuromancer.html#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 03:44:46 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/neuromancer.html http://dystopia.com/book/the-children-of-men.html
The Children of Men will surprise - and enthrall - P. D. James fans. Written with the same rich blend of keen characterization, narrative drive and suspense as her great detective stories, it engages powerfully with new themes: conflicts of loyalty and duty, the corruption of power, redemption through love. Ingenious, original, irresistibly readable, it confirms once again P. D. James's standing as a major novelist.]]> anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/the-children-of-men.html#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 03:41:46 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/the-children-of-men.html http://dystopia.com/book/the-handmaids-tale.html
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable.

Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now....

Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.]]> anonymous http://dystopia.com/book/the-handmaids-tale.html#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 03:36:38 GMT http://dystopia.com/book/the-handmaids-tale.html