Dystopian Fiction

Embark On a Tension-Filled Voyage Through Space with a Complex Ensemble Cast

Science fiction doesn’t have to be overly convoluted in its otherworldliness. In fact, something focused more on the characters often hits closer to home. That’s exactly what made R.E. Mason’s Moons so enjoyable. This action-packed sci-fi adventure follows two men — strangers to each other — who must find the…

Katie BloomerFebruary 15, 2024

Fiction Recommended

AI Companion Used for Sinister Purposes in Novel for Fans of “Black Mirror” and “Klara and the Sun”

Is artificial intelligence so powerful that it can recapture the beauty and emotions of a lost loved one? Or is it so dangerous that it can paint a different picture about someone you thought you knew? Afterword (CLASH Books) by Nina Schuyler is a captivating new novel that explores the…

Madeline SuarezNovember 16, 2023

Recommended Thrillers

Journalist Pens “Ripped From the Headlines” Thriller About a Threat to American Democracy

Wow, talk about a “ripped from the headlines” book! J.M. Adams’ debut novel, Second Term (Oceanview Publishing), is a political thriller about a government crisis even worse than the real-life events, which took place in Washington at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. It is 2028 now, and a lame-duck…

R.G. BelskyOctober 17, 2023

Thrillers Young Adult

“The Handmaid’s Tale” Meets “Never Let Me Go” in YA Set in Restrictive Dystopia

The Chaperone is a brilliantly conceived, provocative and finely crafted YA novel written by M Hendrix (Sourcebooks Fire). It just might be one of the year’s best books written in this genre and one quite likely to be banned in Florida. She has envisioned a frightening dystopian world set in…

Linda HitchcockJune 15, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Traverse Murky Shadows of Plagued, Dystopian City in New Graphic Novel

What does insanity taste like? I think a bit like cheese puffs and politics. Would you like a bite? The first line of Andrew Daily’s Esperanza: The Graphic Novel tells us a lot and also provides plenty to, ahem, chew on. For one thing, the “insanity” card points readers in…

Jim AlkonJune 13, 2023

Fiction Thrillers

A Hidden Utopia Isn’t All It Appears to Be in Suspenseful Sci-Fi

Justin Cronin, the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, returns with a haunting tale of capitalism, the ecological crisis, and preservation of our species in The Ferryman (Ballantine Books). For years, Proctor Bennett has served as the Director for the Department of Social Contracts, where he is assigned…

Jodé MillmanMay 11, 2023

Fiction

Speculative Debut Explores Life in the Shadows of a Surveillance State

Shadows exist as reminders of people’s crimes in this poetic, disturbing and hopeful debut from Marisa Crane. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself (Catapult) is a near-future, speculative sci-fi novel, set in an imagined United States that feels eerily similar to our own. The Department of Balance acts as the…

Megan BeauregardFebruary 6, 2023

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One Young Woman’s Rebellion Against a Society Divided by Race

The Great Peony: Safina Cameron (Pretty Publications) flips the script on racism and discrimination, imagining a world where dark-skinned people thrive in High Society, while light-skinned people make up the lower class with less access to resources and education. Jannah Bayyan has crafted a fascinating piece of speculative literary fiction…

Megan BeauregardSeptember 15, 2022

Fiction

Unique Dystopian Novel Challenges Our Culture and Imagination

Have you ever been in such awe of a book that you couldn’t find the right word to describe it? (Not a good place to be if you write reviews for a living!) Maybe the word doesn’t exist yet. Remember the classic Woody Allen movie Annie Hall when Alvy tells…

Jim AlkonDecember 5, 2022

Thrillers

“Agency” Delivers Dystopian Dilemmas; Full Attention Required

Since the dawn of the genre, science fiction writers have played with notions of reality, alternate universes, technology’s impact and the puzzles of time travel. Today, human technology has advanced to the point that these questions seem less speculative and more urgent, especially the militarization of technology and artificial intelligence.…

Dennis HetzelJanuary 16, 2020

Miscellany Pop Culture

“Access Restricted:” 1984 Meets The Handmaid’s Tale

Access Restricted (Harlequin Teen) is the gripping follow-up everyone has been anticipating from Gregory Scott Katsoulis after his original hit All Rights Reserved. Katsoulis takes us on another top-notch dystopian adventure using the same important themes of power and censorship from his first story. All Rights Reserved took us far down a topsy-turvy…

Rebecca ProulxAugust 31, 2018

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“To Hover Over Waters” Presents Intriguing Challenges, Emotions for “Invisible” Youths

In William Golding’s iconic novel Lord of the Flies, a group of schoolboys is stranded after a plane crash on an uncharted island. Far from civilization and with no adult supervision, they have a rare sense of freedom and govern by their own rules. While it wouldn’t be fair to…

Jim AlkonOctober 19, 2021

Fiction Young Adult

Coriolanus Snow Lands on Top in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”

In Suzanne Collins’s blockbuster trilogy, “The Hunger Games,” Panem President Coriolanus Snow is presented as a calculating, ruthless dictator bent on destroying the Mockingjay heroine, Katniss Everdeen. In Collin’s new novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic), we are introduced to an angst-ridden teenage Snow, forty years before the…

Jodé MillmanJune 9, 2020

Fiction

“2044” Takes “Addicted to Our Devices” to a Whole New Level

If anyone told you a couple of decades ago that there would be some form of legalized marijuana in three-quarters of the states in the U.S., that we would willingly wear monitors on our wrists that collect health data and even make transactions for us, or that AI technology would…

Gevera Bert PiedmontOctober 4, 2021

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” Explores Humanity and the Ethical Conundrum of AI

“A haunting fable of a lonely, moribund world that is entirely too plausible.” — Kirkus Reviews —∞— “Moving and beautiful … an unequivocal return to form, a meditation in the subtlest shades on the subject of whether our species will be able to live with everything it has created." — The Los…

Karina Holosko, M.A. English LitMarch 2, 2021

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Humanity’s Rules Become More Complex as AI Changes Life’s Fine Print

“Terms of Service” can be found in the fine print at the bottom of most websites we enter every day, and we blindly click “ok.” But have you ever read any of these agreements? In the existential sci-fi thriller Terms of Service, which blurs the lines between what might happen…

Karina Holosko, M.A. English LitMarch 4, 2022

Embark On a Tension-Filled Voyage Through Space with a Complex Ensemble Cast

AI Companion Used for Sinister Purposes in Novel for Fans of “Black Mirror” and “Klara and the Sun”

Journalist Pens “Ripped From the Headlines” Thriller About a Threat to American Democracy

Traverse Murky Shadows of Plagued, Dystopian City in New Graphic Novel

One Young Woman’s Rebellion Against a Society Divided by Race

“Agency” Delivers Dystopian Dilemmas; Full Attention Required

“Access Restricted:” 1984 Meets The Handmaid’s Tale

“To Hover Over Waters” Presents Intriguing Challenges, Emotions for “Invisible” Youths

Coriolanus Snow Lands on Top in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”

“2044” Takes “Addicted to Our Devices” to a Whole New Level

Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” Explores Humanity and the Ethical Conundrum of AI

Humanity’s Rules Become More Complex as AI Changes Life’s Fine Print

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