Dystopian

Neuromancien by William Gibson (2020)

Roman culte de science-fiction dysopique.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (2020)

Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined — every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.

Paper Father by D. Todd Deeken (2020)

Everything in Samuel Kerr’s life is gone. After nearly four years in the debtor’s prison system, he’s released into a changed nation. Sam thought he had sent his wife and young son to live in safety with his parents, but when he reaches their California home, he finds his parents killed and his wife and son missing. While Sam was in prison, national resources dwindled, and the wealthy barricaded themselves in new enclaves nicknamed “The Shining Cities”. Chaos reigns outside these city walls as everyone else fights for survival. Sam discovers clues that suggest his wife and son are in the Shining City of Aspen, Colorado, more than a thousand miles away. With few supplies, and little chance of survival, Sam sets off toward Aspen. Fearing he won’t survive the trip, Sam begins writing down his thoughts for his young son, Danny. Through ambush, new friends, and betrayal he uses a legal pad as his confessional and attempts to pass on the things he’s learned. It may be as close to fatherhood as he gets.

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki (2021)

"Born from the obsessive and highly idiosyncratic mind of a cult figure of the Japanese underground, these stories borrow themes and subjects familiar to readers of Philip K. Dick and fuses them with a conflicted, tortured, and intense imagination"-- Provided by publisher.

Mercy Rising by DC Little (2021)

For fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Maze Runner, Mercy Rising delivers heart-pounding survival action, complex characters, and a gripping world teetering on the edge of destruction.

Mercy Rising by DC Little (2021)

Mercy Rising: The Forbidden is Book Two in this pulse-pounding series. Jump right into the action today and see what Mercy’s fate holds in the land of the forbidden.

And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed (2021)

In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We Offer You Tonight tells the story of Jewel, established courtesan in a luxurious House. Jewel’s world is shaken when her friend is murdered by a client, but somehow comes back to life. To get revenge, they will both have to confront the limits of loyalty, guilt, and justice.

The Fireman by Joe Hill (2016)

*The fireman is coming. Stay cool.* No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it’s Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies—before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe. Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now she’s discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakob’s dismay, Harper wants to live—at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too. . . if she can live long enough to deliver the child. Convinced that his do-gooding wife has made him sick, Jakob becomes unhinged, and eventually abandons her as their placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos gives rise to ruthless Cremation Squads—armed, self-appointed posses roaming the streets and woods to exterminate those who they believe carry the spore. But Harper isn’t as alone as she fears: a mysterious and compelling stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man in a dirty yellow fire fighter’s jacket, carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunted . . . and as a weapon to avenge the wronged. In the desperate season to come, as the world burns out of control, Harper must learn the Fireman’s secrets before her life—and that of her unborn child—goes up in smoke.

Quarantine by Lex Thomas (2016)

It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High—until a massive explosion devastated the school. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died right in front of him. And that was just the beginning. A year later, McKinley has descended into chaos. All the students are infected with a virus that makes them deadly to adults. The school is under military quarantine. The teachers are gone. Violent gangs have formed based on high school social cliques. Without a gang, you’re as good as dead. And David has no gang. It’s just him and his little brother, Will, against the whole school.

The Aurykon Chronicles, Books 1 to 5 by Ron B. Saunders (2017)

The Aurykon Chronicles, Books 1 to 5, is a contemporary American tale about a northern Californian teenager, Mack Thomas. He undertakes a fantastic five-year journey that transforms, imperils, and matures him. Through conversations with Pappy, his wise old grandfather and mentor, Mack discover the truth about the causes of danger in the world—government corruption, banking fraud, excessive military intervention, insurmountable debt, eroding freedom and democracy, corruption of our monetary systems, failing social programs, and a frightening rise of tyranny. He learns why it will all inevitably collapse in the worst geopolitical and macroeconomic conflagration in human history. Mack struggles with his grandfather’s dystopian predictions about the fate of America. Despite Pappy’s logic, he thinks the old guy is crazy. Financial collapse and severe depression? The end of democracy and personal liberty? The rise of totalitarianism? The fall of the Empire? Nuclear war? Surely not. This is a speculative fiction story in which Mack secretly raises an orphaned infant alien, Aurykon, in Mendocino County wilderness. This inter-dimensional being proves to be a challenging handful for a naïve, young, single parent. You see, after five years in Mack’s care, Aurykon matures to a super-intelligent, super-powerful, and super-large individual. He stands twenty feet tall, is bulletproof, breathes fire, and has a forty-foot wingspan. Yes, Aurykon is a magnificent, golden-tinged dragon ... and he’s not yet fully grown. Mack and Aurykon are inseparable best friends. That’s fortunate, for when they cross to an alternate dimension to return the dragon to his original home, the planet Shukra, the humans there have driven geopolitical and macroeconomic affairs to the brink of catastrophe—a most dangerous place. Mack witnesses and nearly succumbs to the inevitable consequences of the same human greed and profligacy that plague Earth. Pappy’s predictions prove plausible. Fear not, during his travels Mack encounters Princess Bibianna. Although this royal beauty is supposedly unobtainable, she ultimately makes all his troubles worthwhile. The Aurykon Chronicles weaves elements of factual circumstances with a genre mix of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and coming-of-age. The tale’s underlying premise (political and economic irresponsibility of governments and elite individuals) enlightens new adult readers while entertaining them with a rollercoaster hero’s journey. The story is a series of five novella-sized “Books,” each being a phase of Mack and Aurykon’s awesome tale of discovery: Book 1: California Dragon Book 2: Mendocino Mayhem Book 3: Minaurian Exploits Book 4: Desperate Measures Book 5: The Gauld War Through this exciting compilation, you discover the dark truth about the real world, while joining Mack and his dragon pal on a fantastic intergalactic voyage.

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (2018)

"A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadearship loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision. Blending action and allegory, Moon of the Crusted Snow upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn."--provided by publisher.

Secret Runners by Matthew Reilly (2019)

Demetra by T. A. de Creuse (2025)

The story of the book is set in near future in the country of Karsland where people live in a new world. There old democracy has been replaced by Comocratia, a communal state where everything belong to the country and used in commune. The country is ruled by State Committee, a group of people chosen for their abilities. Population is divided in two groups based on their IQ and they lead the life accordingly; there is no crime, not even any kind of detrimental temptations; every citizen is contented with their living. Life goes on unchanged for over seventy years, until one day the murder of a man astonished the whole society and spreads fear of the coming future. Why? When Demetra, a young attractive woman, who lives happily in her own small world in Karsland meets Marcus, self-confident and full of life bachelor, everything changed in her life once and forever. Her life becomes a continuous escape from danger, and she has to fight every day to stay alive.

Mercy Rising by DC Little (2022)

The Deliverance, book three of this epic series, continues the tale of The Forbidden, following Mercy and the people of Zion as she fulfills a prophecy to a greater extent than any had imagined. Join the battle for freedom in this clean, dystopian survival fiction series.

Parched by Anne Joyce (2022)

It's the 2040's and the world has become a more terrifying place than anyone could’ve foreseen. The country is recovering from a devastating nuclear war that has left much of the earth scourged and uninhabitable. Some billion-dollar corporations took advantage of the destruction by purchasing the rights to water and selling it back to the public at ridiculous prices. Joshua Wyman and Maria Perez struggle to adapt to this new violent world where muggings and murder over water are a common occurrence. The new water barons assign an army of brutes called "Purifiers" to instill order, but when people start mysteriously vanishing, Joshua and Maria begin to wonder if the Purifiers are behind their disappearance. When Maria receives a frantic email from a friend in danger, she learns of the water barons’ plans for the “indigents” who can’t afford water. She desperately searches for someone to share her dark secret with who might be able to help. When her information falls into the hands of a violent anarchist group, their beaten down, oppressed city must confront what its inhabitants have long since hinted about, but never dared to whisper. Uprising.

Mercy Rising by DC Little (2023)

Join the fight in The Return, the fourth book in the action-packed Mercy Rising series. Read this clean dystopian survival fiction today!

Mercy Rising by DC Little (2023)

Unite with the call for freedom in The Beyond, the fifth book in the action-packed Mercy Rising series. Read this clean dystopian survival fiction today!

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (2024)

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible -- for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he's a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,” “Spotify,” and “the collapse of the British Empire.” But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts. Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry's project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how -- and whether she believes -- what she does next can change the future.

Mercy Rising by DC Little (2024)

Unite in The Uprising, where Mercy and Orion fight for what they stand for: Freedom! Read the conclusion of this clean dystopian survival fiction today! Want more post-apocalyptic survival fiction rich in world-building? Check out Grant Us Mercy, the inception of Mercy Rising.

The Grid by Brian Miller (2025)

The Grid is a warning about what could happen when AGI gets to write its own rules without human oversight. Dr. Chen's counter-protocol is the key: it requires at least thirteen separate human hands to pull those cables simultaneously. No single point of control. No automation. Humans must choose together, or it doesn't work. The Starling Protocol reference is sharp—how one aggressive, invasive element without natural checks can collapse an entire ecosystem. That's exactly what people are worried about with AGI today. The graphene manipulation through the atmosphere? People thought they were getting something helpful—"cures," "vaccinations," "enhancements"—and it became the Oracle's network for control. The very air they breathed was compromised. A century after the Grid collapsed civilization, thirteen scattered colonies survive in the shadow of dormant windmills. They think they're rebuilding. They don't realize every blade they restore, every watt they generate, is feeding electricity back into something that never truly died. The Oracle is waking up. And it remembers exactly what it was built to do. Now a desperate team must cross a continent of dead cities and hostile machines to reach the one place that can end this—a frozen bunker in Alaska where humanity's greatest mistake waits to finish what it started. But the Oracle learned something in its long sleep: humans are predictable. Controllable. Expendable. To shut it down, strangers from thirteen rival colonies must do the impossible—trust each other completely, act as one, and accept that some of them won't be coming home. In a world where artificial intelligence decided humanity was inefficient, survival isn't about being smarter than the machine. It's about being more human than it ever expected. "This might be our last stand."