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1) Erewhon
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A utopian classic with a rich legacy–influencing authors from Huxley to Herbert and beyond–Erewhon satirizes Victorian society with biting insight still relevant today.
When Higgs, a young traveler, stumbles upon the beautiful land of Erewhon, he soon discovers that its seemingly ideal culture is founded upon bizarre, unsettling beliefs. Crime is a sickness, while sickness is a crime; the greatest scholarly achievement is unreason, and all machines...
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The Fixed Period (1882) is a satirical dystopian novel by Anthony Trollope. Gabriel Crasweller, a successful merchant-farmer and landowner, is Britannula's oldest citizen. Born in 1913, he emigrated from New Zealand when he was a young man and was instrumental in building the new republic as one of a group of similar-minded men which included his best friend John Neverbend, ten years his junior, who is now serving his term as President of Britannula....
4) 2100
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James Lawson, a business entrepreneur from our times, has grown up with the belief that the main purpose of life is to maximise wealth. He only accepts that climate change is real when he realises he can make money out of dealing with it.
Struck down by a near-fatal brain tumour, he is put into hibernation until a treatment can be found for his condition.
Revived in the year 2100, he finds himself living in a very different world from the one that...
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Broadly adapted from George Orwell's classic "Animal Farm", this book narrates the transformation of fairly happy, functional farm, taken over by a bunch of farm animals led by some pigs, who succeed in driving away the 'human' masters who once ran the place.
The rebellion, generally successful at the start, degenerated into a system dominated by the pigs, led by a pig named Napoleon and some of his loyal pig supporters who usurped all power even...
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Welcome to 1980s Belarus, where Polish denim is the currency, "kike" is a pedestrian endearment, and a second-trimester abortion can be, procured for a box of chocolates. Antonia Olenski, a catty half-Jewish professor at the Gomel Music Academy, wavers between her flamboyant composer husband, Joseph, and a chivalrous tenor, Nicholas. The Chernobyl disaster breaks up the love triangle, forcing Antonia into evacuation with her annoying eight-year-old...
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This short story, naughtily titled as Winking in Wunderland, is a caustic satire that mocks at the duplicitous wink-and-nudge goings-on in the world of media and mass communication, banking and business. Understandably, Winking in Wunderland jabbingly alludes to the politics of winking and goes out audaciously to link winking to the business of media, particularly of print publications and television.As you read this short satire, you can feel the...
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Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novella: In a bizarre future metropolis where even the most trivial fib cannot be uttered, a man must learn to lie-or lose what he loves most Truth reigns supreme in the city-state of Veritas. Not even politicians lie, and weirdly frank notices abound-such as warning: this elevator maintained by people who hate their jobs: ride at your own risk. In this dystopia of mandatory candor, every preadolescent citizen is...
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The year is 2600 AD or 419 B.O.M. (the Brotherhood of Man) when Anthony Meredith, a scholar from the future, comes across an important manuscript of Avis Everhard written around 1912-1932 when "Iron Heel” came to power in USA. "Iron Heel” is an oligarchic regime where the power and money is concentrated in the hands of a few rulers and Avis and her husband Ernest are involved in a conspiracy to overthrow it. Although Meredith knows the fate of...
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One of Samuel Butler's most famous works, "Erewhon" is the story of a fictional country in which Butler satirizes the Victorian society of the time in which he lived. An anagram of the word "nowhere," "Erewhon" upon first impression appears to be a utopian society. However as the country is further detailed is becomes apparent that this is clearly not the case. The titular setting of the novel is loosely based on Butler's experiences as a young man...
11) The transition
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A first literary novel by an award-winning poet envisions the processes and fallout of a secret organization designed to help seriously indebted couples by immersing them in life-changing, six-month programs to educate them on adult responsibilities and the reasons they get into financial trouble.
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She told the magistrate she had been abused, taken advantage of, her reputation ruined.
Or, had she?
The village law said that the benefit of the doubt lay with the most vulnerable. And, so women were believed, when they said some male had fondled or groped or acted in a threatening manner.
For Lyla, it had happened many times. All to her shame.
The men she accused were penalized and their own reputations marked.
Simply denying it was no defense....
13) Strange Worlds
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"Clayton's strong character writing carries the book…" - Publishers Weekly In the future, the love of a young man's life is slowly dying. He would do almost anything to keep her alive…except that! - AmythingIn Dog Man, it turns out that Oscar the tomcat was just misunderstood - with deadly consequences…A love sick young man attempts to tap the power of an ancient religion to secure the affections of a girl on their class trip to Christland…The...
14) Cherry Licks
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YOU LISTEN, YOU BLEED.
After receiving the news that her younger sister has been rushed into hospital, teenager Jamie Miller is mortified to discover that her wounds may have been self-inflicted. With the help of her sister's boyfriend, she unearths a dreadful plot involving Venom Records and the popular music mogul, Irwin Forrester.
Jamie and Todd face a race against time to foil Venom Records before the new episode of their singing talent show...
15) Diapsalmata
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A beloved TV character discovers he is trapped in a perpetual stream of reruns.An angry Hollywood starlet turns the tide of fans of revenge porn.The last four aristocrats in England try to survive the apocalypse.And much more. A collection of speculative short stories and various vignettes, Diapsalmata is full of material from Ixtab Media's writing team. Speculative, darkly comic, cynical, perhaps a little depressing, it is an anthology for the misanthropes,...
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In the tradition of Squid Game and The Hunger Games welcome to the dystopian future of mass entertainment in 2084 for a counselling show with a difference: Patient vs Counsellor. Where the counsellor must guess the patient's serious psychosexual problem to win a star prize, or face humiliatingly Forfeit-Fun. On tonight's show we have three contestants: Katy, a former beauty queen now obese, counselled by Captain Stanislav Boglosovic, a former military...
17) World War Q
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…in real life, in this universe, the "Turner Diaries," a tome of white supremacist drivel, inspired numerous hate crimes and acts of terrorism around the world, including the 1984 assassination of liberal radio host Alan Berg, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing,and the 1999 London nail bombings. The Anti-Defamation League identified the "Turner Diaries" as, "probably the most widely-read book among far-right extremists; many of them have cited it as...
18) Replikat
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Smirnov Kool has everything: fame, style, success and regular sexual relations.Just one problem. He's missing. Manchester, as he knew it, is also missing: replaced by transparent cityscapes populated by naked people, forgotten lovers, a pyjama underclass and idea architects. It's a Manchester where taxis are fuelled by outmoded Broadband technology and you can legally terminate your able bodied spouse if you can make a convincing case against their...
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Who needs a hero when there's a scapegoat?Laurel Sapphire's dinner parties have never been a huge hit. But that all changes when her guests discover that it never warmed up after winter ... and it's now the middle of August. As word spreads from Wimbledon, Kentucky, to the rest of the world, which is also downright chilly, so does total panic, and suddenly Laurel's hometown finds itself at the epicenter of a global crisis.After a multinational summit...
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Equal parts sociological lore and screwball comedy, Dumpster, for God's Sake bends reality into fiction in a uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human.
Loviers City believes that cleanliness leads to Godliness. But, order quickly descends into chaos when a sighting of the Virgin occurs. Soon, thousands arrive to visit the spot where She appeared. But, the pilgrims leave their mark, discarding refuse and besmirching Loviers City's...
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