Books like The Year of the Flood
The companion to Oryx and Crake: survivors in a flooded world navigate a landscape of genetic experiments, religious cults, and corporate bioterror.
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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.
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.
Borne
In a ruined city stalked by Mord, a giant flying bear, Rachel, a scavenger, finds a small green creature caught in Mord's fur and takes it home, against the wishes of her partner, Wick, who deals in biotech that alters memory.
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.
Zone One
A thoroughly average man works on a sweeper team clearing the last zombies from a walled-off Lower Manhattan as a provisional government tries to rebrand the apocalypse.
The Power
Women around the world develop the ability to generate electrical jolts, and within a generation, the entire global power structure inverts.
The Windup Girl
In a future Bangkok threatened by rising seas and engineered plagues, a Western calorie-company agent, an abandoned genetically engineered woman, a Chinese refugee and an incorruptible environmental enforcer are caught up in a struggle over the kingdom's seedbank.
The 5th Wave
After four waves of alien attack have killed most of humanity, sixteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan, alone in the woods with a rifle and trusting no one, sets out to keep her promise to find her little brother.
The Day of the Triffids
Bill Masen wakes in a London hospital with his eyes bandaged to find that almost everyone who watched the previous night's green meteor shower has gone blind, and that the triffids, tall walking plants with poisonous stings, are loose.
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.
The Dog Stars
A pilot survives a pandemic that kills most of humanity and learns to live in the beautiful, dangerous emptiness of Colorado.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
After nuclear war, monks in the Utah desert preserve fragments of scientific knowledge through centuries of darkness, waiting for humanity to rebuild.