Books like 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.
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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.
The Handmaid's Tale
In a theocratic dystopia, a woman is valued only for her fertility, forced to bear children for the ruling class.
Wool
Thousands of people live in a vast underground silo, and the worst crime is asking to go outside, until Juliette, a mechanic from the deep levels, is made sheriff and starts asking why.
1984
A man in a totalitarian superstate falls in love, commits thoughtcrime, and discovers that the Party's true weapon is not punishment but the erasure of truth itself.
The Sea and Summer
In the Melbourne of the mid twenty-first century, with the seas rising and most people unemployed and crammed into the tower blocks of the Swill, two brothers try to keep a hold on the life above it. Centuries later, historians study what they left.
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.
The Sheep Look Up
Over a single year in a near-future United States choked by pollution, where water has to be filtered, the air calls for masks and crops are failing, dozens of lives cross around Austin Train, an environmental prophet who has gone into hiding.
The Giver
A boy in a seemingly perfect community discovers that the sameness everyone lives under conceals a horrifying truth about what was sacrificed for stability.
We
In the One State, a city of glass a thousand years from now where every hour is scheduled, D-503, the mathematician building the spaceship Integral, begins a journal in praise of its perfect order, and then he meets I-330.
Player Piano
In a near-future where machines do all the work, a factory manager discovers that full employment was the only thing keeping civilisation from eating itself.
The Power
Women around the world develop the ability to generate electrical jolts, and within a generation, the entire global power structure inverts.
A Clockwork Orange
A teenage thug in a future England narrates his ultraviolent nights in a private Russian-English slang, then gets reconditioned by the state until even his taste for Beethoven hurts.