Dystopian and utopian fiction Books

A post-apocalyptic story of survival in a surreal prison built in the ruins of Tokyo.Framed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashi finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre...

A post-apocalyptic story of survival in a surreal prison built in the ruins of Tokyo.Framed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashi finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre...

A post-apocalyptic story of survival in a surreal prison built in the ruins of Tokyo.Framed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashi finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre...

In a dystopian future Japan, forty-two junior high school students are outfitted with weapons and bid to kill one another until there is only one left standing.Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller envisions a nightmare scenario: a class of...

A post-apocalyptic story of survival in a surreal prison built in the ruins of Tokyo.Framed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashi finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre...

A post-apocalyptic story of survival in a surreal prison built in the ruins of Tokyo.Framed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashi finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre...

A post-apocalyptic story of survival in a surreal prison built in the ruins of Tokyo.Framed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashi finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre...

A post-apocalyptic story of survival in a surreal prison built in the ruins of Tokyo.Framed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashi finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre...

A post-apocalyptic story of survival in a surreal prison built in the ruins of Tokyo.Framed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashi finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre...

A post-apocalyptic story of survival in a surreal prison built in the ruins of Tokyo.Framed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashi finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre...

A post-apocalyptic story of survival in a surreal prison built in the ruins of Tokyo.Framed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashi finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre...

The Ragpicker a man, bonded into a mysterious 'secondskin' that has prolonged his life after the digital apocalypse wanders the lush, deserted Earth, haunted by failing avatars and fragmented texts. He's searching for traces of his...

Tales of suspense for the twilight hour...Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity -...

2022 QUILL & QUIRE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE 30TH ANNUAL HAMILTON LITERARY FICTION AWARDA bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA furnitureDistraught and hopeless, an...

Immerse yourself in a fantasy world of Filipino myth, magic, and supernatural suspense!Lambana. -the realm of supernatural fairies known as Diwata - has fallen, and the Magic Prohibition Act has been enacted. To add to his troubles, there's...

A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government.The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that...

In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend on each other.Alec, a press artist with an impressive...

It's been a while: After years of serialized issues, Shadow Hills collects all ten installments, a whopping four of which were counted among the best comics of their year by the Comics Journal. It's worth the wait: The complete thrilling adventure and...

Nominated for 2024 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association's Elgin Award One of the Globe 100's Best Books of 2023 The follow-up to Guriel'sNYT New & NoteworthyForgotten Work is a mashup ofMoby-Dick, The Lord of the Rings, Byron, cyberpunk,...

"Smart, fast-paced and disturbingly possible"-Joelle Charbonneau, author, The Testing"Twelve inmates, one chamber. It's time to face justice, live!"Saturday night primetime. The nation settles down to watch a special edition of Justice Live the most...

Incarcerated for his subversive connection to the old, living world, a prisoner makes the most of his isolation in this captivating allegorical tale about tyranny, conviction, and the enduring power of imagination.Upon setting out for a morning walk with...

On the eve of the Occupy Wall Street protests, C is flat broke. Once a renowned textile artist, she's now the sole proprietor of an arts supply store in Lower Manhattan. Divorced, alone, at loose ends, C is stuck with a struggling business, a stack of...

The winner of the 2024 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award in the Fiction-Science Fiction category.2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year for Science Fiction2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year for LiteraryA pioneer of artificial intelligence rebuilds the love...

A delightful graphic memoir told in photographs. Ype is a gay man living in Amsterdam with his boyfriend Nico. When asked by Nico to accompany him on a work trip to America, Ype must confront his deep fear of flying. While doing so, Ype finds he also has...

What would life feel like without fear and oppression? Is it possible to find solace in the power of chosen family, underground art collectives, and ultimately revolution? Set in Beirut, Lebanon, a city once known to be a vibrant cultural center of the...

In this hybrid novel-part essay, part prose poem, part travel narrative-Blair Austin brings us nose to the glass with our own vanishing world, what we preserve and at what cost.<br> In a city far in the future, in a society that has come...

Finalist for the Foreword INDIES Best Horror Novel of 2016 Like millions of children, Samuel Bradbury comes from a broken home. Yet he still enjoys the everyday activities of being a kid: playing basketball, shooting his air rifle, and hanging out...

In the dystopian world of Mafinga, Jasmin must contend with a dictator's sorcerer to cleanse the socialist state of its deadly pollution.Mafinga's malevolent king dislikes books and, together with his sorcerer Atari, has collapsed the environment to...

In a near future Tokyo, every action-from blinking to sexual intercourse-is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees...Risen from the ashes of bankdeath, Amon Kenzaki, fallen Liquidator and Xenocyst survivor, arrives at the...

Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and Special Citation Winner A catastrophic solar flare reshapes our world order as we know it in an instant, electricity grids are crippled, followed by devastating cyberattacks that paralyze all communication. With America...

"Trainspotting set against a grim post-Soviet backdrop." - NewsweekWorld Literature Today's Recommended Summer Reads 2016A city-dwelling executive heads home to take over his brother's gas station after his mysterious disappearance, but all he finds at...

Winner: MoCCA Award of ExcellenceRINGO AwardsNomination: Best ArtistNew York Public Libraries Best Comics of 2023 ListIn hell, everyone can hear you scream, but only one person listens.Hell can get you down. It's big, hot, often painful, and a hard place...

Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Spring is one of Merc Rodoreda's most complex and beautifully constructed works. The novel tells the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town-burying the...

Set sixteen years after the events of The Exiled Earthborn, this explosive conclusion of the Earthborn trilogy tells the story of two brothers, the sons of Lucas and Asha, tasked with surviving the Xalan war to ensure the continued existence of...

Never before available in the United States, Robert Aickman's bizarre and timeless masterpiece!Completed by Robert Aickman in 1975, but never before published in the US and not widely in the UK, Go Back at Once is a delicious, delirious comic fantasy...

'Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes. Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those who prefer to read about truly good, lucky...

Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a voodoo prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean - and humanity - from disaster. But first she must...

Sylvia Linsteadt is a writer, artist, and certified animal tracker based in California. Her short fiction has been published in New California Writing and Dark Mountain among others, and from 2013 to 2016 she ran Wild Talewort, sending re-wilded tellings...

Ann Quin's wildest, funniest, freakiest, kinkiest, and best novel - a road-trip novel, a graphic novel, a spy novel, a Beat novel, an anti-novel - is available again, to inspire a new generation of mavericks.First published in 1972, Ann Quin's fourth and...

One of NYPL's Best New Comics of 2023 for Adults.A poignant fable about a young woman who is captivated by a set of recently discovered notebooks and leaves her isolated community to search for their author-a journey that ultimately makes her question...

A new technology has emerged, promising a perfect society, and resisters are not long for this world . . .Ahead, not too many years from now, everyone has been linked to a network of government-mandated brain implants.The Interfacehas become a way of...

An all-too-familiar dystopia where public perception precedes reality and our identities are defined by what we consumeAs head of the crisis management team at a Madison Avenue PR firm, Leonard Lundell spends his days counseling executives whose...

*Named a Best SFF Book of 2022 by Book Riot*They're underemployed. Underpaid. And trying to survive the end of the world while trapped inside an office complex. Who knew temp work could be this dangerous? Jacob Elliot doesn't want a temporary job in the...

It's Eva Thorne's 200th birthdayBut it's not a celebration, more like a funeral. Eva lives in a world where the cure for aging and illness has been discovered and administered to every person on Earth. Only, there's one big hitch. It turns out that very...

An award-winning cyberpunk novel set in mid-21st century Cuba, Freeway: La Movie crosses the absurdity of American pop culture with the deep, fragmented unease of Cuban-US relations.A novel-in-stories set in mid-twenty-first century dystopian Havana,...

Journalist Rags Goldner is battle-scarred and heartbroken after covering a devastating pandemic that rages in Baltimore for five years. She leaves the city with her partner in search of a simpler life in small-town Maryland-only to discover nothing in...

In this utopia, the feminist Movement has been successful and women rule the world. Men are trained at reeducation facilities to accept the new normal in this futuristic satire challenging our sexual norms.The Movement's founding ideology emphasises that...

To escape the choking heat of deep summer, Sky and his family survive on stories of the dead in an underground darkness at the end of the world.Environmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child coming of age;...