Tag: Dystopian fiction
Good Book to Read: This Impossible Brightness by Jessica Bryant Klagmann
Good Book to Read: This Impossible Brightness, Jessica Bryant Klagmann, Lake Union – Alma Hughes has always possessed the gift—or curse—of empathy.
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Review: The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz
Review: The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz, Thomas & Mercer – Katie suffered the deepest tragedy anyone could imagine when her family was gunned down in an ice cream store by a trio of gang members.
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Interview: Story of Witches Inspires Deep Thought
Women Could Fly, Megan Giddings, Harper Collins – Josephine’s mother disappeared when she was 14. No one knew what happened, but the conjectures ranged from suspicions that she was murdered to that she was a witch.
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Review: The Big Dark Sky by Dean Koontz
Review: The Big Dark Sky, Dean Koontz, Thomas & Mercer – Joanna Chase had an idyllic childhood growing up on Rustling Willows Ranch in Montana.
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Review: Femlandia by Christina Dalcher
Review: Femlandia, Christina Dalcher, Berkley Books – In the near future the American economy crashes, leading to massive unrest and the breakdown of society.
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Review: Constance by Matthew FitzSimmons
Constance, Matthew FitzSimmons, Thomas & Mercer – The protagonist in Matthew FitzSimmons’s futurist novel, “Constance,” has no memory of the eighteen months prior to her death, and then, awakening as a clone.
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Books to Read: The House of Untold Stories by Peter Chykowski
The House of Untold Stories, Peter Peter Chykowski, Andrew McMeel Publishing – An orphanage for wayward stories. A labyrinth of secrets. A home on the border of reality… Open each door to find a world of magic and menace waiting for you, if you dare.
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Escape to Wilderness Threatens Mom and Daughter’s Relationship
The New Wilderness, Diane Cook, Harper Collins – Five-year-old Agnes was dying in the polluted city, so her mother, Bea, joins a group headed for the only remaining wilderness.
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Followers by Megan Angelo
Followers, Megan Angelo, Graydon House – Megan Angelo’s novel, “Followers,” outlines an ominous future: Society tightly linked to devices, political decisions made via Twitter, people monitored by drones or robots and obliged by sponsors of reality shows to buy mind-numbing drugs.
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Dahlia Black by Keith Thomas
Dahlia Black, Keith Thomas, Leopoldo & Company – In 2023 astronomer Dahlia Mitchell is the first to identify a signal beamed from outer space by an intelligence other than human.
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