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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Slow Gods
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Born For Marble  (The Cradled Common, #3)
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Gold Sector (Drakon-Clan Series #1)
Nyx (Mate's Mark Book 3)
Heavy Metal Lover
Barnacle
Conform (Conform, #1)
A Guardian and a Thief
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
First
Local Heavens
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Conform (Conform, #1)
Dating After the End of the World
Daggermouth
A Visit to the Husband Archive (The Time Traveler's Passport)
The Poppy Fields
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
Cronus (The Time Traveler's Passport)
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
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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)
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
1984
The Handmaid's Tale
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
The Giver (The Giver, #1)

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