Dystopian and utopian fiction
Cune Press,US White Carnations: 101 Tales from War-torn Syria
Book SynopsisIn White Carnations, the Syrian fiction writer Musa Rahum Abbas, revered in the Arab world, makes his English language debut with 101 tales that sketch life inside and outside Syria during the revolution that began in 2011. The prose in White Carnations is etched, distilled, essential. It recalls curious fables from distant foreign lands. Delicious vignettes and anecdotes are followed with the most absurd and horrific headlines of the Syrian revolution. Other tales document the furious efforts of non-poor Syrians who have escaped for a few weeks or forever. They are burrowing into superficially normal lives in the modern world. Yet their lives are not normal, because they are utterly unable to release the memories of pain and cruelty that they carry with them, like an emotional passport. Cune Press is presenting White Carnations as a companion to The Dusk Visitor. The scholar, translator, and creative writer Musa Al-Halool is the co-translator of White Carnations along with the delightful academic Sanna Dhahir. Note that Musa Al-Halool is the author of The Dusk Visitor. Both books are “light reading” on a serious subject. They explore through the tool of short fiction the fascist style that can slowly and decisively overtake democratic governments. (Yes, Syrian democracy emerged when the French left in 1946. After several years of free elections, an era of coup and counter-coup mixed with democratic maneuvering held sway as the Ba’ath Party gained strength. In 1963, the Ba’ath ousted Nazim Qudsi, considered the last democratically elected president of Syria). Whereas The Dusk Visitor’s commentary applies to several security state governments in North Africa and the Middle East, White Carnations focuses on the eruption of violence and displacement within a single country, Syria, and follows its expats as they struggle in exile. Both books hold lessons for readers who value an open civil society, the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and democratic elections as a way to transfer power within democratic institutions.Trade Review“Sometimes vividly, often subtly, these short sketches convey to the reader the pain and the horror of the fighting in Syria and its effect on the Syrian people.” Arthur G. Goldschmidt, Pennsylvania State University -- Arthur G. Goldschmidt
£11.99
Apocalypse Party Generation Bloodbath
£15.84
Defiance Press & Publishing, LLC The Yewberry Way: Book I: Prayer
£15.26
Voluspa Press Steel Demons MC: Books 4-6
£29.99
Voluspa Press Steel Demons MC: Books 4-6
£39.97
Independently Published Zournal: Book 6: The Final Countdown
£14.11
Independently Published O Rastreador
£10.49
Independently Published The Proselyte
£9.05
Simon & Schuster The Deluge
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book “This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.” —Stephen King From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters—a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come. From the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles, the Midwest to Washington, DC, their intertwined odysseys unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as they summon courage, galvanize a nation, fall to their own fear, and find wild hope in the face of staggering odds. As their stories hurtle toward a spectacular climax, each faces a reckoning: what will they sacrifice to salvage humanity’s last chance at a future? A singular achievement, The Deluge is a once-in-a-generation novel that meets the moment as few works of art ever have.Trade Review"The best novel I read in 2022 was THE DELUGE, by Stephen Markley... This is what the world is going to look like in the next 10 years, if changes aren't made. More terrifying than THE STAND. Because it's real."—Stephen King, on Twitter "Immersive and ambitious, [The Deluge] shows the range of its author’s gifts: polyphonic narration, silken sentences and elaborate world-building.”—New York Times Book Review "An astonishing feat of procedural imagination, narrative construction and scientific acumen."—Los Angeles Times "A clear-eyed, climate-justice-minded page-turner. . . . Stephen Markley’s new novel is part thriller, part horror, part all-too-real. It’s scary, instructive and also entertaining."—Washington Post "This book is destined to be a classic and needs to be read by anyone who can get their hands on it.... THE DELUGE is ultimately a feel-good work that will leave readers reeling from the amount of information that has been dissected and shared." —Book Reporter “Markley’s dark depiction of the near future is filled with vivid descriptions of climate catastrophes, but his intricate network of complex characters balances precision with pathos, offering a kaleidoscopic view of humanity’s fraught relationship with its changing planet.”—Scientific American "This is a stunning achievement that may earn a place among dystopian and apocalyptic classics like 1984 and On the Beach. And perhaps most of all, it’s an unflinching and utterly compelling call to action to prevent an all-too-possible future."—Library Journal (starred review) “In this brilliant dystopian epic... [Markley's] nuanced characterizations of individuals with different approaches to the existential threat make the perils they encounter feel real as they navigate cover-ups and lies. It’s a disturbing tour de force.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) "An ambitious rendering of a forbidding future and the public and private challenges that will define it."—Kirkus “[A]mbitious, sprawling… a demanding but worthwhile read.”—Booklist "What makes you not want to put it down, is you care about the people in the book" —Seth Meyers “A ferocious, spectacular achievement. A masterful beast of intellect and heart.?Markley should take his place as a visionary of our time.” —Merritt Tierce, author of Love Me Back “A major achievement, bountifully imagined. Unquestionably one of the best novels to grapple with the climate crisis. I am haunted by it.”— Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead “A stunning and comprehensive view of a future that is both impressively imagined and terrifyingly imminent.”—Fatima Farheen Mirza, author of A Place For Us “Engrossing and timely. A towering achievement in style and substance that is at once timeless and impossibly urgent.”—Ben Philippe, author of Charming as a Verb “The Deluge is not just an impressively well-thought-out and all-too-realistic catalog of the ways in which the climate crisis might mutate into something much worse; it's also a page-turner packed with no shortage of thrills or heart.”—Sean Adams, author of The Heap “A masterclass of climate fiction. This barnstormer of a book is a must-read.”—Nana Nkweti, author of Walking on Cowrie Shells “A seminal novel and a singular achievement. The Deluge is sure to take a place alongside such great environmental books as The Overstory, The Shell Collector, Barkskins, Flight Behavior and so many others.”—Bill Cusumano, Square Books, Oxford, Mississippi “An epic work of great ambition, Stephen Markley’s The Deluge is unyielding; it marvels and it mortifies. Few books in a lifetime will make you feel as this one must and while full of every kind of blooming horror, Markley’s magnum opus is as engulfing as it is earnest.”—Jeremy Garber, Powells, Portland Oregon “A terrifyingly imagined future, made all the more believable by the real characters in the not so distant past and present. An important book.”—Bobbi Irving, Penguin Bookshop in Sewickley, Pennsylvania “One of those rare novels that manages to be deeply informative and a page-turner at the same time, The Deluge takes us on an intrigue-laden journey into a possible future that is truthful with regard to both the urgency and agency that exists today in addressing the climate crisis.”—Michael Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor, University of Pennsylvania and author of “The New Climate War”
£29.25
Simon & Schuster The Deluge
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book ?This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you''ll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.? ?Stephen King From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters?a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come. From the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles, the Midwest to Washington, DC, their intertwined odysseys unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as they summon courage, galvanize a nation, fall to their own fear, and find wild hope in the face of staggering odds. As their stories hurtle toward a spectacular climax, each faces a reckoning: what will they sacrifice to salvage humanity?s last chance at a future? A singular achievement, The Deluge is a once-in-a-generation novel that meets the moment as few works of art ever have.
£21.59
Pocket Books The Running Man
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£11.39
Independently Published Gravibus
£13.35
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Artificial Generation
£13.42
Books on Demand futura
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£20.80
Books on Demand Utopia 2048: Reise in eine wunderbare Zukunft
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£19.50
Books on Demand Fluch des Erinnerns: Eine Erzählung aus der nahen
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£15.90
Books on Demand Utopia: Weiße Sonne
£33.72
£7.48
Tingle Books Brave New World
£16.71
Hawk Press 1984
£19.51
£14.27
£16.82
Alan D.D. Verantina de Veniseria
£11.52
Independently Published Across the Sand
£15.00
Independently Published Consume: The Post-Apocalyptic Thriller
£13.94
Independently Published The Amnesty Games: A Dystopian Novel
£14.53
Red Oak Publishing LLC The Master and The Marionette
£22.79
Red Oak Publishing LLC The Puppeteer and The Poisoned Pawn
£22.99
HarperCollins Publishers Hazards of Time Travel
Book SynopsisAn ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive societyWhen a recklessly idealistic girl in a dystopian future society dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled world, she is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America Wainscotia, Wisconsin' that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town, she is set upon a course of rehabilitation' but she falls in love with a fellow exile and starts to question the constraints of her new existence, with results that are both devastating and liberating.Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel is an exquisitely wrought love story, a novel of harrowing discovery and an oblique but powerful response to our current political climate.Trade Review‘A dystopian narrative in which the indomitable Oates seems to be flexing new muscles … unrelentingly disturbing’ Observer ‘Joyce Carol Oates taps deep into contemporary anxieties over the rise of surveillance, totalitarian governments and invasive technology … [she has an] unerring ability to reflect the times in which we live’ Daily Mail ‘Nothing is as it seems in this accelerating swirl of political and academic satire, science fiction and romantic melodrama. At 80, after more than 40 novels, Oates is still casting some awfully dark magic’ Washington Post
£10.75
HarperCollins Publishers The End of Men The pulsepounding debut thriller
Book SynopsisA FIERCELY INTELLIGENT PAGE-TURNER' PAULA HAWKINSWRITTEN PRE-COVID GRIPPING, SCARY AND PERSUASIVE' IAN RANKINTHE STUFF THAT CLASSICS ARE MADE OF' A.J. FINNGRIPPING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. WHAT A DEBUT!' SARAH PEARSE, author of The SanatoriumBRILLIANT, PRESCIENT, UNPUTDOWNABLE' JENNY COLGANAN ENGROSSING DEBUT'STYLISTHUGE IN SCOPEAS TENSE AS THE TAUTEST THRILLER'REDTHE MOST BUZZED-ABOUT FICTION FOR 2021'SUNDAY TIMES STYLEAN UNFLINCHINGLY PACY MUST-READ'GRAZIAAN UNFORGETTABLE DEBUT'PRIMA________________________________________________________A RACE AGAINST TIMEThe year is 2025. Mankind is under threat.A FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVESMen are dying, but women remain safe. As the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe, people fight to protect the men they love against all odds.A DISASTER LIKE NO OTHERCan they find a cure before it's too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world or its salvation?Compelling and devastating,The End of Menis the pulse-pounding thriller everyone is taTrade Review‘The stuff that classics are made of’ A.J. FINN ‘A fiercely intelligent page-turner, at once thoughtful and highly emotive’ PAULA HAWKINS ‘Gripping, scary and persuasive’ IAN RANKIN ‘Gripping…a beautifully written page-turner’ SARAH PEARSE, AUTHOR OF THE SANATORIUM ‘A powerful book that has made me feel a little bit better about the world we are living in right now’ BRYONY GORDON ‘I ripped through this. It’s pacey, devastating, prescient, compelling and confronting…a sure-fire hit, and rightly so’ LAURA JANE WILLIAMS ‘It is scary how prescient and relevant this is…compelling and heart-breaking. A remarkable achievement’ ABI DARÉ ‘Brilliant, prescient and unputdownable’ JENNY COLGAN ‘A tour de force – a feminist reimagining of society’ GILLIAN MCALLISTER ‘One of the best books I’ve ever read’ ANSTEY HARRIS ‘Moving, thought-provoking and terrifyingly prescient. I talked of nothing else for days!’ TAMMY COHEN ‘Pacy, emotive, thought-provoking and ultimately a reminder of the strength of love and human connection’ C.D. MAJOR 'A remarkably prescient, whip-smart, and strangely hopeful novel' CHARLOTTE PHILBY ‘Gripping, moving and scarily prescient. Couldn’t put it down’ CHARLOTTE NORTHEDGE ‘Topical, timely, imaginative and ultimately hopeful’ KATIE KHAN 'An incredible achievement' JESSICA MOOR ‘Expect big things from The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird. Sold in a six-figure deal, there is also a major film in the pipeline’ SUNDAY EXPRESS ‘Chillingly prescient’ SUNDAY TIMES SCOTLAND ‘THE MOST BUZZED-ABOUT FICTION FOR 2021’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE ‘HUGE IN SCOPE…AS TENSE AS THE TAUTEST THRILLER’ RED ‘AN UNFLINCHINGLY PACY MUST-READ’ GRAZIA ‘AN UNFORGETTABLE DEBUT’ PRIMA
£8.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fearless
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£15.29
Random House USA Inc Rusty Brown
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£27.38
Penguin Putnam Inc Vox
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£10.92
Putnam Publishing Group,U.S. A Short Film About Disappointment
Book SynopsisAn ingenious novel about art and revenge, insisting on your dreams and hitting on your doctor, told in the form of 81 movie reviews.
£18.89
Random House USA Inc To Paradise
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£13.50
Random House USA Inc The Steps of the Sun
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of The Queen''s Gambit, a dramatic science fiction odyssey in which a billionaire ventures into outer space to save EarthThe year is 2063. Earth’s energy resources are dangerously close to being depleted, a new world superpower has upset America’s global dominance, and the threat of a new Ice Age looms large. Fortunately, there is one man brave enough—and perhaps foolish enough—to venture beyond the planet to find the mineral resources that will secure the country’s future: Ben Belson. One of the richest men in the world, Belson is haunted by personal demons and wanted for his unlawful space travel, but he will stop at nothing to fulfill his crucial mission—and discover a future greater than he could ever have imagined.
£15.20
Random House USA Inc MADDADDAM TRILOGY BOX
Book SynopsisA boxed set (three trade paperbacks) of the internationally celebrated speculative fiction trilogy from one of the most visionary authors of our time, Margaret Atwood. Across three stunning novels—Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and Maddaddam—the best-selling, Booker Prize-winning novelist projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining. In Oryx and Crake, a man struggles to survive in a world where he may be the last human. In search of answers, he embarks on a journey through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. In The Year of the Flood the long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life. And in Maddaddam a small group of survivors band together with the Children of Crake: the gentle, bioengineered quasi-huma
£27.60
Atlantic Books The New Girl
Book SynopsisSarah Lotz is a crime novelist and screenwriter with an interest in zombie fiction. Louis Greenberg is a literary writer, editor and bookseller who has studied vampire and apocalyptic fiction. When they decided to write the first mainstream South African horror novel together, S.L. Grey was born.Visit their website at slgrey.book.co.za
£7.99
Last Gasp,U.S. Slow Death Zero
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£21.21
Random House USA Inc The Memory Police
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£12.00
Random House USA Inc The Heart Goes Last
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—in the gated community of Consilience, residents who sign a contract will get a job and a lovely house for six months of the year...if they serve as inmates in the Positron prison system for the alternate months.“Captivating...thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review Stan and Charmaine, a young urban couple, have been hit by job loss and bankruptcy in the midst of nationwide economic collapse. Forced to live in their third-hand Honda, where they are vulnerable to roving gangs, they think the gated community of Consilience may be the answer to their prayers. At first, this seems worth it: they will have a roof over their heads and food on the table. But when a series of troubling events unfolds, Positron begins to look less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled. The Heart Goes Last
£10.92
Disney Book Publishing Inc. The Glare
Book SynopsisA teenager uncovers an urban legend game with horrifying connections to her past in this YA psychological thriller perfect for fans of Black Mirror.
£13.29
Simon & Schuster Ltd Rouge
Book Synopsis'Rouge is a fever dream—a brilliant, intense, unforgettable horror story about a beauty cult with a deeply moving mother-daughter story at its core. Mona Awad’s signature and singular imagination and black humor and empathy are on full display here, and her wild-ride of a tale is masterfully grounded in the emotional devastation of childhood and grief. I loved every word of this.'—Laura Zigman, author of Small World 'There is nobody else like Mona Awad, daring enough to plunge her hands—rings and all—into the viscera of story and discover an unsettling beauty within. ROUGE is her most magnetic work yet, a thrilling dystopian romp that knows that beneath the glossy, aspirational veneer of self-care lurks the same old gothic abyss.'—Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun 'A brilliant, biting critique of western
£13.49
Headline Publishing Group Before This Is Over As a deadly epidemic spreads
Book SynopsisA TERRIFYING EPIDEMIC. A MOTHER DETERMINED TO KEEP HER FAMILY SAFE. HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO?''Gripping and terrifyingly realistic, Before This Is Over is the story of a mother trapped in the epicenter of a deadly global virus - and the agonizing choices she must make to keep her family alive'' Sarah PekkanenHow far will a mother go to save her children? A twisting, edge-of-your seat drama that you''ll never forget. ''We couldn''t put this down'' Take a BreakBEFORE THIS IS OVER by Amanda Hickie is a powerful, thought-provoking drama that looks at one family in the heart of a devastated community and compels us to ask: how far would I go to save my children? ''Shatteringly suspenseful...it''s impossible not to be super-glued to the page'' Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of PICTURES OF YOUA normal family. A quiet, leafy street. A terrifying epidemic. It''s been comingTrade ReviewWe couldn't put it down * Take a Break *When a global epidemic spreads to Sydney, Australia, one mother fights to keep her family alive and together in Hickie's debut thriller.... Quarantined together, Hannah's family faces challenges to their safety and questions about the limits of human empathy as they fight not only to survive, but to keep their own relationships intact. There is no shortage of suspense in Hickie's novel.... There's an effective sense of claustrophobia; once the family goes into quarantine, they have little contact with any other people or any other places, so the reader is trapped with them in their house-and in their roiling emotions. Poses challenges to our safe, complacent lives, forcing readers to ask, "What would I do if...." * Kirkus Reviews *A tense debut.... Under these circumstances, how does one cope with entertaining an active child or feeding a growing, whiny teenager, who eats as if supermarkets are still open and refuses to understand why he can't realistically depicts how isolation and the threat of disease affect one family * Publishers Weekly *What would you do in an epidemic?... Utterly fascinating, a little gruesome and impossible to put down.... This is a slow-burn thriller that would make an excellent choice for a book club -- Jessica Broadbent * Books + Publishing *Don't think you'll be able to grab a snack once you start Before This Is Over, Amanda Hickie's shatteringly suspenseful debut, because it's impossible not to be super-glued to the page... This is a novel that slowly, expertly nudges under your skin, and stays there, even as it raises provocative questions about what price you might pay to keep the ones you love safe. Gorgeously written and so chillingly alive that I was still unnerved hours after finishing the book - and how great is that? -- Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of PICTURES OF YOU and IS THIS TOMORROWGripping and terrifyingly realistic, Before This Is Over is the story of a mother trapped in the epicenter of a deadly global virus - and the agonizing choices she must make to keep her family alive -- Sarah Pekkanen, bestselling author of THE PERFECT NEIGHBORSThis tale's tight lines of logic and sharp interrogation of the limits of compassion...make for a fascinating read -- Ed Wright * The Australian *A bravely told story of one woman's courage despite terrible odds -- Nancy Freund, author of RAPESEED
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Orion Publishing Co The Storm Beneath a Midnight Sun
Book SynopsisReturning to the world of Shadows of the Short Days, it''s time to go beyond Reykjavík to Hrímland''s remote islands . . .CHANGE DOES NOT ALWAYS HAPPEN FOR THE BETTER.War on the mainland is draining Reykjavík. For some, the remote islands off Hrímland''s coast are their only hope of survival.Elka, a recovering addict, has fled there with her son Sölvi. In their village they find a new life - all thanks to the Deep, a peculiar power their neighbours praise for the booming fishing industry. Everything seems perfect, but Sölvi does not trust the people who take his mother in.Kari is a professor of sorcery, recruited for a career-making venture - an excavation of an ancient power. He must go deep into the magical wasteland, find what is buried there, and turn the tide of the war forever. But the world might not be ready for the storm he will unearth . . .* * * * * * * * * *''A marvellous, quirky,
£12.34
Pocket Books The Four Legendary Kingdoms
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£9.49
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Gender Game 3: The Gender Lie
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Gender Game 5: The Gender Fall
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