Dystopian and utopian fiction Books

Nazar tells the story of a peasants' revolt in the polyglot city of Balaal. The story begins with a miracle. A homeless boy sees a whale washed up on the beach. He alerts the local fishermen, and soon the whole town is trying and failing to push it back...

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well that she is the only person left...

At the time of the Millennium three people struggle for survival in a small New Hampshire town as the world spins into chaos, not realizing that each harbors secrets that will eventually pit them against one another. The story evolves from the U.S...

Squatters at a rural gas station try to find freedom and build something new on the ashes of our petrocivilization in this sensual novel. A community of outsiders takes over an abandoned gas station. They spend their days ripping up asphalt, drinking...

Nineteen Eighty-Four meets Tron, via The Office, in this boldly dystopian novelThe agents don't know what they're agents of, but they're very busy agenting, which means watching endless data feeds in their cubicles, cubicles that are piled one on top of...

In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature?A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains...

One of the first dystopian novels ever written, The Last Man traces the impact of an unstoppable pandemic as it slowly overtakes the world.Beginning in the year 2073, the story follows Lionel Vesey - the titular last man - and his circle of friends as...

A singular combination of Brave New World and Gulliver's Travels, this is an eerily timely masterpiece of satireOrwellian in its surehandedness, insights, and timelessness. For fans of satire, dystopian/utopian fiction, and sci-fi

Award-winning author Darren Groth's epic story of a dog who will protect the last remaining member of his family, an intellectually disabled boy, at all costs as human civilization crumbles around them.In a time of isolation and scarcity, a regressive...

This is the story of Olga, a retired mathematician, and Mateo, a college student passionate about robotics, and their plot to influence Google.After a chance encounter at the public library, two new friends begin to meet up regularly. Together they...

How to train a Filipino dragon and other real-life adventures of three modern monster hunters!Since The Lost Journal of Alejandro Pardo was published, other creature hunters have come out of the woodwork to share their spine-tingling accounts of more...

A fascinating field guide to Philippine monsters and mythology!From award-winning authors Budgette Tan and David Hontiveros comes The Lost Journal of Alejandro Pardo - a 19th-century cryptozoologist's account of his encounters with the strange...

An intrepid gumshoe tracks a girl lost amidst Manila's many temptations. Can he crack the case in a city about to erupt into violence?Manila the walled city recently freed from a dictator's iron-fisted rule is a magical metropolis where...

From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply heart-wrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but...

** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon before you read the Booker Prize-winning sequel The Testaments. 'The Handmaid's Tale changed me profoundly, hopefully for the better' Lee Child, Guardian ...