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1) Prophet song
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Mariner Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1984, mechanic Julia Worthing, who works in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth, in one impulsive moment, sets in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story, in this imaginative, feminist and brilliantly relevant to-today journey through Orwell's now-iconic dystopia.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only people guaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world. Jacqueline Millender is a reclusive billionaire/women's...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Girls in New America must have a chaperone with them at all times . Because of this, Stella is never alone. She can't go out by herself or learn about the world. She can't even spend time with boys except at formal Visitations. Still, Stella feels lucky that her chaperone, Sister Helen, is like a friend to her. And then the unthinkable happens. Sister Helen dies suddenly, and Stella feels lost. Especially when she's assigned a new chaperone just...
5) Your utopia
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the acclaimed author and translator of Cursed Bunny, a fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fears -- and deepest desires. Bora Chung's inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and dark humor reaches its peak in these tales of loss and discovery, dystopia and idealism, death and immortality. In a thrilling translation by the acclaimed Anton Hur, readers will experience...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
7) Alebrijes
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For 400 years, Earth has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel -- or go it alone in the wilderness beyond, filled with wandering spirits and wyrms. They don't last long. 13 year-old pickpocket Leandro and his sister Gabi do what they can to forge a life in Pocatel. The city does not take kindly to Cascabel like them -- the descendants of those who worked the San Joaquin Valley...
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tomorrow, the funk descends on Manhattan, a noxious cloud which separates the island from the rest of the world and mutates the population. Some generations on, the surviving population exists amid the rubble of modernity, wearing our cast-off clothing, worshipping celebrities as dim gods and using emojis in place or written language. The Island exists in a state of uneasy peace, with each neighborhood an independent fiefdom, protecting itself with...
9) Snowglobe
Author
Series
Snowglobe duology volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that’s warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face the icy world to get to their jobs at the power plant, where they produce the energy Snowglobe needs. Their only solace comes in the form of twenty-four-hour television programming streamed directly from the domed city.
The residents of Snowglobe have everything: fame, fortune, and above all, safety...
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic. Veris Thorn--the only one to ever enter the forest and survive--is forced to go back inside to retrieve the tyrant's missing children. Inside await traps and trickery, ancient monsters, and hauntings of the past"--
11) Xino
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
144 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Because the future is getting weirder everyday, we give you XINO--an intra-ocular lozenge of subversive, surrealist science fiction to cure your awful awareness of it all. Try not to worry--the insertion process will be guided by the megawatt brilliance of comics' brightest talents as they slowly tune your hopes, dreams, desires, paranoia, alienation, anxiety, and adrenaline to produce the desired results. Join Melissa Flores (The Dead Lucky, Mighty...
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