Dystopian & Alternative History Fiction Books

From Huxley's Brave New World in 1932 to The Hunger Games, our fascination with the speculative & extreme never dwindles

1360 products


  • The Astral Twins: The Trials and Tribulations of a Flying Saucer Builder

    15 in stock

    £14.01

  • An Elephant for Aristotle

    Phoenix Pick An Elephant for Aristotle

    15 in stock

    15 in stock

    £15.73

  • Over the Wine-Dark Sea

    Phoenix Pick Over the Wine-Dark Sea

    15 in stock

    15 in stock

    £15.73

  • The Gryphon's Skull

    Phoenix Pick The Gryphon's Skull

    15 in stock

    15 in stock

    £15.73

  • The Sacred Land

    Phoenix Pick The Sacred Land

    15 in stock

    15 in stock

    £15.73

  • Owls to Athens

    Phoenix Pick Owls to Athens

    15 in stock

    15 in stock

    £15.73

  • Brown Books Publishing Group The Dixie Apocalypse

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    £14.39

  • Compass Rose

    Bywater Books Compass Rose

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    £20.66

  • Bywater Books Proud Pink Sky

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    £17.81

  • Tachyon Publications Sea Change

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    £14.24

  • Akashic Books The Freedom Artist

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £15.26

  • Small Beer Press Terra Nullius

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    £13.29

  • Dominion

    Gatekeeper Press Dominion

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    £24.99

  • Wasteland Compendium Vol. 2

    Oni Press,US Wasteland Compendium Vol. 2

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisPerfect for fans of Mad Max: Fury Road, this apocalyptic tale chronicles the adventures of Michael, a mysterious wanderer struggling to find the answers to both his past and his future. The conclusion to the sprawling tale, collecting issues #32-60! After leaving the Dog Tribes and Newbegin behind, Michael and Abi continue across the desert in search A-Ree-Yass-I. Joined by another who shares their strange gifts, the tensions between them nearly jeopardize their quest while Newbegin prepares for war. When they finally uncover the fabled land, it will take everything they have to unearth the truth... and then the story of The Big Wet can be told!

    10 in stock

    £32.39

  • Dryad Vol.1

    Oni Press,US Dryad Vol.1

    10 in stock

    Book Synopsis"The Glass family has spent thirteen years hiding peacefully in the sleepy forest settlement of Frostbrook where Morgan and Yale planted roots and raised their twins, Griffon and Rana. But secrets never stay hidden, and the entire Glass family find themselves the target of an unearthly attack on Frostbrook. Now on the run from Muse Corp., they must flee to the massive city of Silver’s Bay to hide in plain sight. Rana and Griffon find themselves uprooted and answering for their parents' mistakes. But, they’ll soon find that the past has a way of finding you, no matter where you run. "

    10 in stock

    £16.19

  • Ignatius Press Elijah in Jerusalem

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    £17.05

  • Ignatius Press Exogenesis

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    £16.11

  • City of Ash and Red

    Arcade Publishing City of Ash and Red

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £19.99

  • Year of the Orphan

    Arcade Publishing Year of the Orphan

    10 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    10 in stock

    £19.99

  • Living Ink: Ascension

    Morgan James Publishing llc Living Ink: Ascension

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisBrian Ranzum and his crew wake up to find themselves off course, low on fuel, and lost in space. The exact year and time is unknown. Drifting in space with no destination and limited fuel, Brian Ranzum and his crew are thankful to find a large space station nearby. They acquire permission to board and retrieve supplies for the trip back home, but upon entry, no one is there to greet them. The crew is forced to search the barren station for supplies alone, where they face uncooperative doors, lighting blackouts, and even an odd visual programming that creates their life-like drawings on the ceilings drawn in pitch, black ink. Their quest takes them further into the station’s labyrinth-like depths, and what started as a search for supplies becomes a battle of survival as the crew discovers the hidden mysteries that are buried within the recesses of the station. Living Ink: Ascension is a psychological thriller that will take its readers to the edge of reality and beyond.

    1 in stock

    £13.29

  • Death Fugue

    Restless Books Death Fugue

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    Book SynopsisBanned in China for its taboo allusions to the Tiananmen Square massacre, Sheng Keyi's Death Fugue is a lyrical and explosive dystopian satire that imagines a world of manufactured existence, the erasure of personal freedom, and the perils of governmental control.One morning a nine-story tower of excrement of unknown origin appears in the center of Dayang's capital, Beiping. The government swiftly scrubs the scene of all evidence and hands down its final word: Do not ask questions; dissent will be punished. But the crowd gathered in Round Square to witness the Tower Incident for themselves only grows and soon explodes in unrest. Poet Mengliu and his girlfriend Qizi join the uprising, but thousands disappear in the brutal crackdown that follows, including Qizi, the newly appointed protest leader. Mengliu abandons poetry and revolution but never gives up hope that Qizi may still be alive.Years later, on his annual journey in search of Qizi, Mengliu washes ashore in the idyllic country of Swan Valley, a world of dreamlike beauty, perfection, and youth. But the dream becomes a nightmare as he slowly begins to unravel the secrets of Swan Valley, discovering that the perfect society exists at a deep, inhumane cost.Boldly absurdist yet eerily prescient, award-winning author Sheng Keyi's Death Fugue barrels out of the void left by generations of state-imposed silence in modern-day China, where it remains banned from publication. It is a rogue artist's answer to a profound question of our times: What is the role of art after atrocity?

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    £13.29

  • Becoming Forest: A Story of Deep Belonging

    Easton Studio Press Becoming Forest: A Story of Deep Belonging

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    Book SynopsisBecoming Forest opens with Aishling—the young Irish woman at the heart of this story—as she visits her grandmother in California following her grandfather’s death. Aishling finds her grandfather’s journal and reads about a trip he made to India years ago to visit the original Bodhi Tree, the place where the Buddha found enlightenment. At the end of the journal, she finds a letter addressed to her from her grandfather asking for her help passing along his message of “deep security” to her generation as they deal with the climate crisis and the uncertain future ahead. Aishling goes to India to follow in her grandfather’s path to find a way of responding to his request. There she meets and falls in love with a young Buddhist monk, who is also on a quest. As they walk together along the roads of India, they gather unexpected and invaluable insights from each other and come closer to the answers they both seek. Thirty years later, Aishling’s daughter Tara is visiting her in Ireland. Tara is grieving the death of her father and also the destruction of the forests from drought and fire. She is also searching for a way to heal the burnout she and her friends are experiencing while working to combat climate change. Becoming Forest weaves together threads of Native American and Celtic spirituality with Buddhist understanding and connection to the natural world, creating a tapestry which holds both the despair and awakening of AishlingTrade Review“Becoming Forest is a bold, imaginative tale that serves as a handbook for psychological and spiritual resilience in the face of imminent climate collapse. It is a moving vision for new ways of dwelling on the earth. Combining Michael Kearney’s professional experience as a palliative care doctor and his Irish cultural background as a lover of nature and all living things, he invites us to embrace the wisdom of the forest. This engaging and timely work is a must for all readers committed to radical environmental change.”—Mary Robinson, 7th President of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner of Human Rights and former UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, founder of the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice, and author Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable FutureThis beautiful book is a powerful allegory for our time, and, as well, a remarkable story of a spiritual journey that is also timeless. Written by Dr. Michael Kearney, the renowned and beloved palliative care physician, the reader is taken into the heart and life of what it means to be wise, courageous, and resilient in the face of enormous adversity. This book will inspire hope and strength in any reader. Roshi Joan Halifax, Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, author, pioneer in the field of end-of-life care, and author of Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet“Becoming Forest is filled with awe, love, and appreciation for this phenomenon we call tree. I love how tree, in its own right, is appearing as this call to sanity for humanity in this moment. That we have tree - how this improves our chances!” — Joanna Macy, environmental activist; scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology; and author of, World as Lover, World as Self“How do we hold hope and despair in one hand? How do we live honestly into the future of our planet—our home—all the while tending our mounting and accelerating losses? Well, it turns out, there is a way, and it could not be more urgent or accessible. In a book for the ages, for all ages, Michael Kearney’s latest, we learn how to look death in the eye and choose life, and all just in time.”—BJ Miller, hospice and palliative medicine physician, author and speaker, best-known for his 2015 TED Talk, “What Really Matters at the End of Life” (15 million views)“When people don’t remember who they really are, they forget what is actually important. When people forget what’s important, they're not sure what to do. But when people remember who they are, they know what is important, and then they know what must be done. By pointing us towards reconnecting with Mother Earth, Becoming Forest helps us to remember who we really are.” — Wolf Wahpepah, second generation in his family to carry a traditional Native American inter-tribal fireplace that receives all people for the benefit of all life. With his wife, Lisa Wahpepah, he leads a community-based nonprofit, Descendants of the Earth, whose mission is to preserve the integrity of traditional Native American culture.Table of ContentsDedication Foreword 2021 Chapter 1: Forest Chapter 2: The Gift Chapter 3: The Buddha and The Bodhi Tree Chapter 4: A Conversation with Greta Chapter 5: Muir Woods 2023 Chapter 6: Bodhgaya Chapter 7: The Bodhi Tree Chapter 8: Dorje Chapter 9: On the Road Chapter 10: Under the Banyan Tree Chapter 11: On the Road Again Chapter 12: Vulture Peak 2053 Chapter 13: Forest Chapter 14: Headland Chapter 15: Back at the Cottage Chapter 16: Full Moon

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    £15.19

  • New Men: Volume 1

    Action Lab Entertainment, Inc. New Men: Volume 1

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    Book SynopsisLEAP OF FAITH. From frequent collaborators, Murewa Ayodele and Dotun Akande, comes NEW MEN – an action-packed biopunk thriller that both impresses and intrigues. Set in Africa in the year 2030, those who prove a threat to the government’s rule, get whacked. No questions asked. It’s the near future, and the common news is those who face death without fear are given the abilities of gods – superpowers. Citizens are running into burning buildings in an attempt to gain these powers. Few succeed. Most die. Governments see these surviving superfreaks as a threat. They are not going to have it. That’s why they hire SHADE to hunt and kill these superhumans. And she is okay killing whatever they point her to… as long as she has a drink first. This is the world of NEW MEN. This is the action-packed biopunk thriller not to miss.

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    £15.29

  • Clockwork Planet 7

    Kodansha America, Inc Clockwork Planet 7

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    Book SynopsisNaoto's a high school dropout and brilliant amateur tinkerer. He lives in a world that has been so over-exploited that the entire surface has become one vast machine. When a box crashes into his home containing a female automaton, it's a harbinger of change that will rock the entire globe, and give Naoto his chance to be a hero.

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    £11.69

  • Fire Force 8

    Kodansha America, Inc Fire Force 8

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    Book SynopsisThe city of Tokyo is in the grip of a reign of terror! Possessed by demons, people have begun to burst into flame, leading to the establishment of a special firefighting team: the Fire Force, ready to roll on a moment's notice to fight spontaneous combustion anywhere it might break out. But the team is about to get a very unique addition: Shinra, a boy who possesses the unique power to run at the speed of a rocket, leaving behind the famous devil's footprints. Can the Fire Force discover the source of this strange phenomenon and put a stop to it? Or will the city burn to ashes first?

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    £9.89

  • Love And Lies 4

    Kodansha America, Inc Love And Lies 4

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisYukari is dull. He doesn't even stand out enough to be bullied - he's just a generally lower-middle-class kid. He's in love with Misaki, the most popular girl in school. There's just one problem: He's 15, one year away from receiving his government-assigned marriage partner. He normally wouldn't have the courage to defy the law, but his sickly classmate Ririna still believes in love, and won't stop goading him into confessing his feelings!

    10 in stock

    £11.69

  • Clockwork Planet 8

    Kodansha America, Inc Clockwork Planet 8

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    Book SynopsisNaoto's a high school dropout and brilliant amateur tinkerer. He lives in a world that has been so over-exploited that the entire surface has become one vast machine. When a box crashes into his home containing a female automaton, it's a harbinger of change that will rock the entire globe, and give Naoto his chance to be a hero.

    Out of stock

    £11.69

  • Real Account 18-20

    Kodansha America, Inc Real Account 18-20

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisAfter the death of their parents, Ataru Kashiwagi and his younger sister, Yuri, depend on each other. Ataru works hard at high school and his job, and spends his leisure time on a social media site: Real Account. Eventually, he hits 1,500 followers, but he sometimes wonders how much they really care about him. One night, the screen ominously begins to glitch, only displaying: The Game Will Now Begin. In the blink of an eye, Ataru finds himself transported into Real Account's loading screen - except now it's a 3-D lobby! Before them stands Marble, the smiley-faced announcer. With a sinister cheerfulness, Marble says, "If you die in here, you die out there... and so do all your followers!"

    2 in stock

    £21.24

  • Congress of Secrets

    Pyr Congress of Secrets

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £14.45

  • Impolite Stories: Sex, Religion & Politics

    Booklocker.com Impolite Stories: Sex, Religion & Politics

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £12.95

  • The Age of Magic: A Novel

    Other Press LLC The Age of Magic: A Novel

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    Book SynopsisIn this enchanting novel from the Booker Prize–winning author, a group of world-weary travelers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious Swiss mountain village.The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes.Eight weary filmmakers, traveling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two nights, the travelers will find themselves drawn into the mystery of the mountain reflected in the lake. One by one, they will be disturbed, enlightened, and transformed, each in a different way. An intoxicating and dreamlike tale unfolds. Allow yourself to be transformed. Having shown a different way of seeing the world, Ben Okri now offers a different way of reading.

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    £13.12

  • The Kingdoms

    Bloomsbury Publishing The Kingdoms

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    £23.80

  • Outlawed

    Bloomsbury Publishing Outlawed

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £14.86

  • The Kingdoms

    Bloomsbury Publishing The Kingdoms

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £15.30

  • Standing

    Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Standing

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    £8.99

  • Irritation of the Eye in Darkness

    Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Irritation of the Eye in Darkness

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    £14.24

  • Vault Comics Resonant Vol. 2: Spiraling

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £12.79

  • Sheeply Horned Witch Romi Vol. 1

    Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC Sheeply Horned Witch Romi Vol. 1

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisAn offbeat dark fantasy about two strange classmates who fall in love in a transformed post-apocalyptic world.The world has changed: everyone has fallen into a deep slumber, except a bunch of sheep, a sheep-horned witch, and her senpai. And now monsters are closing in! Why are the only people still awake two teenagers snarled up in a tangle of complicated emotions? Find out in this beautifully illustrated, unique dark fantasy!

    10 in stock

    £10.44

  • Soloist in a Cage Vol. 2

    Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC Soloist in a Cage Vol. 2

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £12.59

  • Milkweed Editions 2 A.M. in Little America

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    £12.99

  • The Bone Season: Tenth Anniversary Edition

    Bloomsbury Publishing USA The Bone Season: Tenth Anniversary Edition

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £25.60

  • Venomous Lumpsucker

    Soho Press Inc Venomous Lumpsucker

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    Book SynopsisA dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author of The Teleportation Accident. The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples, from which lost organisms might someday be resurrected . . . But then, one day, it’s all gone. A mysterious cyber-attack hits every biobank simultaneously, wiping out the last traces of the perished species. Now we’re never getting them back.   Karin Resaint and Mark Halyard are concerned with one species in particular: the venomous lumpsucker, a small, ugly bottom-feeder that happens to be the most intelligent fish on the planet. Resaint is an animal cognition scientist consumed with existential grief over what humans have done to nature. Halyard is an exec from the extinction industry, complicit in the mining operation that destroyed the lumpsucker’s last-known habitat.   Across the dystopian landscapes of the 2030s—a nature reserve full of toxic waste; a floating city on the ocean; the hinterlands of a totalitarian state—Resaint and Halyard hunt for a surviving lumpsucker. And the further they go, the deeper they’re drawn into the mystery of the attack on the biobanks. Who was really behind it? And why would anyone do such a thing?   Virtuosic and profound, witty and despairing, Venomous Lumpsucker is Ned Beauman at his very best.

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    £22.36

  • Venomous Lumpsucker

    Soho Press Inc Venomous Lumpsucker

    10 in stock

    10 in stock

    £14.45

  • This Plague of Souls

    Soho Press Inc This Plague of Souls

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    Book SynopsisThe follow-up to Booker-listed literary sensation Solar Bones is a terse metaphysical thriller, named a most anticipated book of the year by The Guardian, The Irish Times, and The New Statesman.Nealon returns from prison to his house in the West of Ireland to find it empty. No heat or light, no sign of his wife or child. It is as if the world has forgotten or erased him. Then he starts getting calls from a man who claims to know what''s happened to his family-a man who''ll tell Nealon all he needs to know in return for a single meeting.In a hotel lobby, in the shadow of an unfolding terrorist attack, Nealon and the man embark on a conversation shot through with secrets and evasions, a verbal game of cat and mouse that leaps from Nealon''s past and childhood to the motives driving a series of international crimes launched against "a world so wretched it can only be redeemed by an act of revenge." McCormack''s existential noir is a terse and brooding exploration of the connections between rural Ireland and the globalized cruelties of the twentyfirst century. It is also an incisive portrait of a young and struggling family, and a ruthless interrogation of what we owe to those nearest to us, and to the world at large.

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    £20.25

  • Songlands

    Haymarket Books Songlands

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    Book Synopsis2052. The world is a mess. The climate change meltdown has triggered an endless cycle of natural disasters. Nationalist paramilitaries battle against religious extremists. Multinational corporations, with their own security forces, have replaced global institutions as the only real power-brokers. Waves of pandemics have closed borders with such regularity that travelhas become mostly virtual. Aurora, a middle-aged sociologist, tries not to think about how the world has turned so chaotic and dangerous. At university, she focuses on her students. At home, it 's her children. She devotes her spare time to writing poetry. She 's relatively comfortable, but not particularly happy. And she 's angry at how small her life has become.Then one day a strange woman walks into Aurora 's life and, in an instant, the world 's chaos gets personal. Suddenly the obscure professor has a target on her back and the fate of the world in her hands. Her salvation, and that of the planet as well, lies in the mysteries locked inside the head of this enigmatic woman who has appeared on her doorstep. Unlocking those mysteries will take Aurora on a virtual journey around the fragmented globe and up against the world 's most powerful corporation. Songlands, the stand-alone finale to the Splinterlands trilogy, describes humanity 's last shot at solving the world 's problems. Can Aurora assemble a team to reverse the splintering of the international community and avert an even more dystopian future?Trade Review“An intriguing conclusion to a worthy trilogy. Feffer leaps far into the future in this book, but his view of it is enriched by a quirky, sensitive understanding of our world as it is—both its dangers and its possibilities.” —Adam Hochschild Praise for Frostlands: "By taking us on a cautionary journey into a future planetary collapse where the term "one per cent" is redefined in a terrifying way, John Feffer forces us to look deeply at our own society 's blindness to ecological apocalypse and greed. But the novel 's enchantment goes beyond dystopia: the quest for salvation depends on a crusty female octogenarian who would make Wonder Woman salivate with envy." --Ariel Dorfman "A worthy sequel to the thought-provoking Splinterlands, Frostlands is triumphant and absorbing science fiction, full of ecological and societal warnings. It is a unique and imaginative look at a future Earth scarred by environmental neglect.... In a short space, Frostlands touches on a variety of intriguing subjects. The killer drones and network-hacking warfare of Frostlands aren 't wild speculative fantasy of a remote future; Feffer is focused on the next fifty years or so, with an eye toward avoiding the mostly bleak landscape that Frostlands so vividly captures. Rachel and Arcadia represent the ability of humans to adapt and fight back against even self-inflicted environmental and societal wounds; their story is both edifying and entertaining." --Foreword Reviews "Devotees of near-future science fiction adventures will root for resolute and energetic Rachel on her quest to save Earth."--Publishers Weekly Praise for Splinterlands: Feffer 's confident recitation of world collapse is terrifyingly plausible, a short but encompassing look at world tragedy. " --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Feffer 's book is a wild ride through a bleak future, casting a harsh, thought-provoking light on that future 's modern-day roots." --Foreword Reviews "Just as it 's especially enjoyable to read science fiction written by real scientists, Feffer offers readers a uniquely well-researched and historically robust argument for why the world turns out the way that it does, which makes it all the more relevant--and frightening. "--Washington City Paper "Readers who enjoy dystopian stories that hold more than a light look at political structures and their downfall will more than appreciate the in-depth approach John Feffer takes in his novel." --Midwest Book Review "Splinterlands is a short and powerful dystopian novel, framed as an all-too-credible account of what might happen in our lifetimes." --Climate and Capitalism "John Feffer is our 21st-century Jack London, and, like the latter's Iron Heel, Splinterlands is a vivid, suspenseful warning about the ultimate incompatibility between capitalism and human survival." --Mike Davis "Feffer 's book, in short, is provocative in the best sense….The dystopic alternative, illustrated so powerfully in Feffer 's Splinterlands, provides us with powerful motivation to shape a better, less splintered, future." --W. J. Astore "Splinterlands paints a startling portrait of a post-apocalyptic tomorrow that is fast becoming a reality today. Fast-paced, yet strangely haunting, Feffer's latest novel looks back from 2050 on the disintegration of world order told through the story of one broken family-- and offers a disturbing vision of what might await us all if we don't act quickly." --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickle and Dimed and Living with a Wild God, and founder of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project "A chilling portrayal of where the politics of division could take us. Now I only hope he writes the sequel to tell us how to avoid it!" --Naomi Oreskes, co-author of The Collapse of Western Civilization

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    £13.49

  • Songlands

    Haymarket Books Songlands

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    Book Synopsis2052. The world is a mess. The climate change meltdown has triggered an endless cycle of natural disasters. Nationalist paramilitaries battle against religious extremists. Multinational corporations, with their own security forces, have replaced global institutions as the only real power-brokers. Waves of pandemics have closed borders with such regularity that travelhas become mostly virtual. Aurora, a middle-aged sociologist, tries not to think about how the world has turned so chaotic and dangerous. At university, she focuses on her students. At home, it 's her children. She devotes her spare time to writing poetry. She 's relatively comfortable, but not particularly happy. And she 's angry at how small her life has become.Then one day a strange woman walks into Aurora 's life and, in an instant, the world 's chaos gets personal. Suddenly the obscure professor has a target on her back and the fate of the world in her hands. Her salvation, and that of the planet as well, lies in the mysteries locked inside the head of this enigmatic woman who has appeared on her doorstep. Unlocking those mysteries will take Aurora on a virtual journey around the fragmented globe and up against the world 's most powerful corporation. Songlands, the stand-alone finale to the Splinterlands trilogy, describes humanity 's last shot at solving the world 's problems. Can Aurora assemble a team to reverse the splintering of the international community and avert an even more dystopian future?Trade Review“An intriguing conclusion to a worthy trilogy. Feffer leaps far into the future in this book, but his view of it is enriched by a quirky, sensitive understanding of our world as it is—both its dangers and its possibilities.” —Adam Hochschild Praise for Frostlands: "By taking us on a cautionary journey into a future planetary collapse where the term "one per cent" is redefined in a terrifying way, John Feffer forces us to look deeply at our own society 's blindness to ecological apocalypse and greed. But the novel 's enchantment goes beyond dystopia: the quest for salvation depends on a crusty female octogenarian who would make Wonder Woman salivate with envy." --Ariel Dorfman "A worthy sequel to the thought-provoking Splinterlands, Frostlands is triumphant and absorbing science fiction, full of ecological and societal warnings. It is a unique and imaginative look at a future Earth scarred by environmental neglect.... In a short space, Frostlands touches on a variety of intriguing subjects. The killer drones and network-hacking warfare of Frostlands aren 't wild speculative fantasy of a remote future; Feffer is focused on the next fifty years or so, with an eye toward avoiding the mostly bleak landscape that Frostlands so vividly captures. Rachel and Arcadia represent the ability of humans to adapt and fight back against even self-inflicted environmental and societal wounds; their story is both edifying and entertaining." --Foreword Reviews "Devotees of near-future science fiction adventures will root for resolute and energetic Rachel on her quest to save Earth."--Publishers Weekly Praise for Splinterlands: Feffer 's confident recitation of world collapse is terrifyingly plausible, a short but encompassing look at world tragedy. " --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Feffer 's book is a wild ride through a bleak future, casting a harsh, thought-provoking light on that future 's modern-day roots." --Foreword Reviews "Just as it 's especially enjoyable to read science fiction written by real scientists, Feffer offers readers a uniquely well-researched and historically robust argument for why the world turns out the way that it does, which makes it all the more relevant--and frightening. "--Washington City Paper "Readers who enjoy dystopian stories that hold more than a light look at political structures and their downfall will more than appreciate the in-depth approach John Feffer takes in his novel." --Midwest Book Review "Splinterlands is a short and powerful dystopian novel, framed as an all-too-credible account of what might happen in our lifetimes." --Climate and Capitalism "John Feffer is our 21st-century Jack London, and, like the latter's Iron Heel, Splinterlands is a vivid, suspenseful warning about the ultimate incompatibility between capitalism and human survival." --Mike Davis "Feffer 's book, in short, is provocative in the best sense….The dystopic alternative, illustrated so powerfully in Feffer 's Splinterlands, provides us with powerful motivation to shape a better, less splintered, future." --W. J. Astore "Splinterlands paints a startling portrait of a post-apocalyptic tomorrow that is fast becoming a reality today. Fast-paced, yet strangely haunting, Feffer's latest novel looks back from 2050 on the disintegration of world order told through the story of one broken family-- and offers a disturbing vision of what might await us all if we don't act quickly." --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickle and Dimed and Living with a Wild God, and founder of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project "A chilling portrayal of where the politics of division could take us. Now I only hope he writes the sequel to tell us how to avoid it!" --Naomi Oreskes, co-author of The Collapse of Western Civilization

    Out of stock

    £32.30

  • Love Song of the Australopiths

    Standard American Publishing Company Love Song of the Australopiths

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    1 in stock

    £20.00

  • High-Rise Invasion Omnibus 7-8

    Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC High-Rise Invasion Omnibus 7-8

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisOn the roof of a high-rise building, a young girl named Yuri witnesses a masked figure split a man’s head open with an axe! It’s not exactly an everyday occurrence for a high schooler, but things only get weirder from there. Yuri soon finds herself in a strange world of skyscrapers with only two options for escape - fight past the mysterious masked figures or leap to her death!

    10 in stock

    £14.39

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