Apocalyptic and dystopian fiction from Multcolib My Librarian ErikaLike this list

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• The Space Between Worlds

  Johnson, Micaiah,

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  Dystopian fiction in which the least privileged and most likely to die are the people who can traverse the multiverse. A story about haves and have-nots full of gritty adventure and social criticism

• Who Fears Death

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  In a post-apocalyptic Africa, a young woman must use her magical powers to confront her sorcerer father and fight the genocide of her people. Vivid desert and village settings, decayed technology, juju, magical creatures. Depicts heavy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  As winter approaches and society crumbles, a small northern Anishinaabe community must learn to survive without eletricity and other modern conveniences.

• I Who Have Never Known Men

  Harpman, Jacqueline,

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  Deep underground, 39 women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.

• It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

  De Marcken, Anne,

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  The heroine of this spare and haunting novella is voraciously alive in the afterlife. -Publisher. Philosophical, moving, leisurely-paced.

• Oryx and Crake

  a Novel

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  Snowman is the last human on an Earth ravaged by global warming and a genetically engineered virus. He is the caretaker of the Crakers, a green-eyed group of modified humans who subsist only on plants, and who don’t have the capacity for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Station Eleven

  a Novel

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  A famous actor collapses and dies on stage during a performance of King Lear. Soon 99 percent of the population follows, victims of a pandemic flu. 15 years in the future, in a ravaged world, a troupe of traveling performers go from town…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  In a dystopian near future, one young woman with an empathic power seeks to create a new way of living that will spread to the stars. Here the apocalypse is climactic and economic.

• Severance

  a Novel

  Ma, Ling, 1983-

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  Candace, a millennial office drone, barely notices when a plague sweeps New York. A moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. -Publisher

• Future Home of the Living God

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth, and the babies that are born appear to be primitive species of human. 26-year-old Cedar Songmaker is pregnant. This is her journal.

• Karma of the Sun

  Boey, Brandon Ying Kit,

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  In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts.

• Gold Fame Citrus

  Watkins, Claire Vaye,

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  Unrelenting drought has transfigured Southern California into a surreal, phantasmagoric landscape. One young couple must leave their Laurel Canyon squat and undertake a journey to a mysterious hidden community. -Publisher

• Cloud Atlas

  a Novel

  Mitchell, David (David Stephen),

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  If you like both Melville and Blade Runner you might like this. Stories nest inside stories, from the 1800s to a post-apocalyptic Hawaii.

• The Road

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023,

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  A father and son travel through an America ravaged by a mysterious disaster. Grim, spare, and haunting.

• The Ministry for the Future

  Robinson, Kim Stanley,

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  A hopeful hard SF story about how humanity deals with the effects of climate change. The opening sequence is devastating, while the rest of the book explores ideas and solutions.

• Seveneves

  Stephenson, Neal,

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  When the Moon explodes, humanity must figure out how to survive a 5,000-year long catastrophic meteor storm. Where do world leaders announce this doomy news? Crater Lake! Heavy on the delta vees and zero-gs, but also sad, harrowing, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dog Stars

  Heller, Peter, 1959-

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  Surviving a pandemic disease that has killed everyone he knows, a pilot establishes a shelter in an abandoned airport hangar before hearing a random radio transmission that compels him to risk his life to seek out other survivors. -…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Termush

  Holm, Sven, 1940-2019,

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  A luxury seaside resort is designed to keep its wealthy residents safe from the physical (and moral) fallout of a global disaster. -Publisher. Reissue of 1967 Danish novella.

• A Canticle for Leibowitz

  Miller, Walter M., Jr., 1923-1996,

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  A group of monks attempts to preserve the fragments of science and civilization that remain after a nuclear disaster. Even a tattered grocery list belonging to "Saint Leibowitz" is a sacred relic in this devastated future.

• Riddley Walker

  Hoban, Russell,

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  Writing this book caused the author to lose his ability to spell. Open it and you'll see why!