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SOLVED. Coming-of-age book about a boy finding a stray dog, later this dog becomes a service dog. Read in 2016.
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SOLVED. Horror Anthology Hidden Room in Castle
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ABANDONED. Book about a post-apocalypse, telepathic, singing civilization, under a dome. One man seeking to escape to save outsiders.
By Susan · 11 posts · 836 views
By Susan · 11 posts · 836 views
last updated Jul 10, 2020 12:54AM
SOLVED. SciFi story - People have discovered how to load knowledge to their brain digitally. Read in the 1980s. [s]
By Valts · 18 posts · 613 views
By Valts · 18 posts · 613 views
last updated Oct 07, 2020 05:10PM
ABANDONED. A YA scifi book where the protagonist leaves a city and lands in a massive landfill surrounding it. Protagonist later travels towards mysterious central tower.
By Eirini · 15 posts · 972 views
By Eirini · 15 posts · 972 views
last updated Jul 08, 2023 07:09PM
ABANDONED. Utopian society that was protected by a computer controlled dome
By NK · 6 posts · 871 views
By NK · 6 posts · 871 views
last updated Jul 27, 2023 05:36PM
Teen/ YA SciFi, Dark. Dystopian collective farm that grows corn, possibly on space station. Workers must confess to & report all petty crimes. Read in late 1980s/early 1990s.
By Alan · 208 posts · 1932 views
By Alan · 208 posts · 1932 views
last updated Aug 17, 2025 03:21AM
YA/ Middle Grade Sci Fi about children and time travel and a post-apocalyptic world. The children have mental powers. An evil machine intelligence is fighting them. Read 1997-2001.
By Jonathon · 12 posts · 224 views
By Jonathon · 12 posts · 224 views
last updated Nov 26, 2024 10:16AM
YA Sci-Fi/ Dystopian. Camp of young people with microchips in their heads to brainwash them. One girls tries to escape. Like a teen "1984". Read in 2015-2016.
By Tabitha · 22 posts · 646 views
By Tabitha · 22 posts · 646 views
last updated Jul 24, 2022 08:09PM
Kids/Teens. A group of people live under a dome and don’t know it. Not George Orwell 1984. Read in 5th or 6th grade.
By Angela · 8 posts · 335 views
By Angela · 8 posts · 335 views
last updated Dec 03, 2021 10:17PM
2000s(ish) Dystopian future (i think) book where people had chips in their head
By Luigi · 6 posts · 459 views
By Luigi · 6 posts · 459 views
last updated Jul 17, 2022 11:39PM
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In the far future, after the earth's petroleum ran out and the environment was toxic, humanity retreated into cities enclosed in plastic domes. Generations later, young Tomi is nervous. He's about to get another information pack slotted into the plug in his spine. If his body can handle it, he's progressed another level up the ladder in his society. But if his nervous system can't handle it, he'll become a menial laborer at best--at worst, death or brain damage awaits him. But to Tomi's joy, he
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I think I've read this book twenty times. In the future, civilization is almost entirely confined to huge domes to ride out a new Dark Age. In Arc One, they live in a very stratified society of slaves, workers, and citizens. Slaves are those incompatible with the Powerpaks that plug directly into the brains of the workers and citizens, giving them information at the blink of an eye. Tomi Bentt has just achieved full citizen status and hopes to one day be as hunched with knowledge (the Paks sit o
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