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The Handmaid's Tale
In a theocratic dystopia, a woman is valued only for her fertility, forced to bear children for the ruling class.
Oryx and Crake
In a ruined world, Snowman, who may be the last human, remembers his friend Crake, a brilliant geneticist who built a new species, and the woman they both loved, in the first book of the MaddAddam trilogy.
The Children of Men
In a near-future England where humanity has become infertile, a disillusioned historian is drawn into a resistance movement against a totalitarian government.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
As pollution and plague leave humanity sterile, the wealthy Sumner family, in their isolated Appalachian valley, prepare by building a hospital and a cloning laboratory.
Myst: The Book of Atrus
Raised by his grandmother in a desert fissure, young Atrus is claimed by his father Gehn, who takes him underground to the ruined city of D'ni to learn the art of writing books that open onto other worlds.
The Maze Runner
Thomas wakes in a lift with no memory except his name and arrives in the Glade, a clearing walled in by an enormous maze whose walls move every night, where a community of boys has been looking for a way out for two years.
The Hunger Games
A teenage girl volunteers to fight to the death in a televised arena to save her sister, and the games become a catalyst for revolution.
Unwind
After a war fought over abortion, the law lets parents have their children unwound between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, their bodies taken apart for transplants, and three teenagers marked for it, Connor, Risa and Lev, go on the run.
Fahrenheit 451
A fireman whose job is to burn books begins to read them, and the act of thinking for himself makes him an enemy of the state.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
In a radioactive, half-abandoned San Francisco, bounty hunter Rick Deckard hunts escaped androids who are almost indistinguishable from humans, while dreaming of owning a real animal.
Ship Breaker
Nailer, a teenager on the drowned Gulf Coast, strips copper wiring from wrecked oil tankers for a scavenging crew. After a hurricane he finds a beached clipper ship with a rich girl alive in the wreckage, and has to decide whether to strip the ship and leave her or help her.
Parable of the Sower
As civilisation collapses from climate change and inequality, a young woman with a dangerous gift of empathy leads survivors north towards a new beginning.