Dystopia

Dystopia is a form of literature that explores social and political structures. It is a creation of a nightmare world - unlike its opposite, Utopia, which is an ideal world.

Dystopia is often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government. It often features multiple kinds of repressive social control systems, a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expressions, and a state of constant warfare or violence.

Many novels combine Dystopia and Utopia, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of the two poss
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For Human Use
The People's Library
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
After the Fall
The Forest on the Edge of Time
The Hospital at the End of the World
This Safe Darkness (Sols & Shades)
Eradication: A Fable
Neurovance
Red Star Rebels
Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur
Free for All #1
The Whims of Love (Monstrous Whims, #3)
We Call Them Witches
A Wild Radiance
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Operation Bounce House
The Polymorph
Dating After the End of the World
The Poppy Fields
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
Shroud
Making Space (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
The School for Good Mothers
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New Series (2013)
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Archer's Voice by Mia SheridanMaybe Someday by Colleen HooverUgly Love by Colleen HooverPlay by Kylie ScottBeautiful Player by Christina Lauren
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Neuromancer by William GibsonSnow Crash by Neal StephensonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickAltered Carbon by Richard K. MorganThe Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
1984
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
The Handmaid's Tale
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)

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