dystopia + science fiction

25 books tagged both “dystopia” and “science fiction”.

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Delirium

Lauren Oliver · 2011

In a America where love is treated as disease, Lena Haloway counts down to her Cure until she meets Alex in Portland.

2,425-word summary · 11 min read

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick · 1968

Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.

2,841-word summary · 13 min read

The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey · 2013

Cassie Sullivan crosses ruined Ohio to save Sammy after four alien waves, trusting Evan Walker while doubting him.

3,063-word summary · 14 min read

The Death Cure

James Dashner · 2011

Thomas refuses WICKED's final test, remembers too much, and runs with the Gladers toward a last cure and a ship north.

2,955-word summary · 13 min read

Legend

Marie Lu · 2011

Day and June collide in the Republic: he is wanted for murder, she hunts him, then learns the truth about Metias and the plague.

2,609-word summary · 12 min read

Red Rising

Pierce Brown · 2014

Darrow, a Red miner on Mars, loses his wife and is remade as a Gold to infiltrate the Institute, where teens wage war for power and he plots revolution.

2,111-word summary · 9 min read

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel · 2014

After a flu empties the world, a traveling troupe plays Shakespeare for small towns linked by one dead actor.

2,480-word summary · 11 min read

The Scorch Trials

James Dashner · 2010

Thomas and the Gladers cross a burned wasteland to reach haven while WICKED watches.

2,097-word summary · 9 min read

The Time Machine

H.G. Wells · 1895

Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.

2,335-word summary · 10 min read

Allegiant

Veronica Roth · 2013

Tris and Tobias leave walled Chicago to learn what lies past the fence. Allegiant closes the Divergent trilogy with Bureau secrets, exile, and a painful final…

2,155-word summary · 10 min read

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline · 2011

In 2045 Wade Watts hunts Halliday's three keys inside the OASIS, racing IOI with Art3mis, Aech, Daito and Shoto for the Jade Key onward.

1,971-word summary · 9 min read