Dystopian

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“Cronin . . . is a writer whose intimate characterization and effortless prose often transcend his subject matter.”

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“while Koontz generally spins a good yarn, this one is not good enough to keep turning the pages.”

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“Stine’s writing is clear, unadorned, and honest yet electrifying, much like her characters, and the story is a pleasure to read.”

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The characters in Alison Stine's new novel, her second, have names like Trillium, Rattlesnake Master, Shanghai, Miami, and Coral, a young woman who was abandoned by her mother and who has lost her

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“The machine persona is not unlike a human psychopath: it lies perfectly, without compunction or any sense of shame.”

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Klara and the Sun is about families, about the future of work, about disability and the nature of (post) humanity.

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At the start of Alison Stine’s first novel, Road Out of Winter, the protagonist, a young woman named Wylodine (known as Wil) leaves her rural home in Ohio and sets out for California.

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Rusty Brown is a masterful study of ordinary American humanity.

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“While The Testaments drops some of its political threads, it’s a wonderfully-written, absorbing novel.

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“Bob Proehl’s The Nobody People is a thought-provoking exploration of what it is like to be an extraordinarily gifted somebody in a world filled with average but paranoid and bigot

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“Taking Early Riser into the summer reading stack will be surprisingly refreshing even though it arrives with both love and a shiver of foreboding.”

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“an intriguing and engrossing debut novel that will leave readers thinking about their own ability to survive, their own capacity for love, and their willingness to face catastrophe with hope.”

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“The wall means having no choices. It means a bone-crunching ordeal of loneliness, isolation, hunger, and most of all penetrating cold.”

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Famous Men Who Never Lived uses a classic science fiction trope (alternate universes) to explore the urgent question of what it means to be a refugee.

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Sergio De La Pava’s Lost Empress begins with all the right things, interesting plot, smart dialogue, and punning wordplay but sadly, like a child’s letting go of an untied balloon, Los

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Simon Stålenhag’s The Electric State matches the notable Swedish artist’s futuristic digital paintings with an original story to produce an awe-inspiring vision of a species committing sui

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“a disgusting, disturbing, magnificent book.”

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“this graphic novel’s reach extends more to the adult reader than those of a much younger age”

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The United States has passed the Personhood Amendment, giving fertilized human eggs full legal rights as citizens. As a result, abortion is banned.

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“A dark and chilling thriller about a danger that could one day become real.”

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"I belong to what they call the Miraculous Generation: those born in the years between the start of the Second American Civil War in 2074 and its end in 2095."

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What a strange, bizarre, wandering, surreal, hard-to-explain but easy-to-feel book Shadowbahn is.

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From the margins of society arise a unique cast of characters who take turns narrating the tale in The Sunlight Pilgrims.

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“. . . enough horror to transform the most steadfast insect-lover into an arachnophobe.”

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“. . . in his debut novel, Ernest Cline weaves a fascinating futuristic, semi-dystopian tale of our world 30 years in the future. . . .

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