Tag: dystopia

Title: The Hatching Author: Ezekiel Boone Publisher: Atria, 7/2016 Summary/Review: Would you prefer death by a swarm of flesh eating spiders, or death by an exploding spider egg sac laid within your body? It seems like those might be your only choices, unless you...

Title: Station Eleven Author: Emily St. John Mandel Publisher: Knopf, September 2014 Summary/Review: The Georgia Flu has swept the globe, wiping out 99% of the world’s population. With them went everything that had been taken for granted: technology, medicine, and electricity to name a...

Title: The Circle  Author: Dave Eggers  Publisher: Alfred A Knopf  Summary/Review: Dave Eggers’ book The Circle has been labeled everything from heavy handed to visionary and stunning. Even though I did want to withdraw into a world of luddites for a short time after...

Title:   Lexicon Author:  Max Barry Publisher:  Penguin Press, 2013 Summary/Review: “Sticks and Stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me” is basically a big, fat lie in the world of Max Barry’s Lexicon.    If a Poet tells you to go...

Title: Watchmen Author: Alan Moore Illustrator: Dave Gibbons Publisher: DC Comics, April 1995 Summary: After a summer of blockbuster movies, you might just be sick of superheroes. But soon (pending some legal wrangling) the greatest graphic novel ever is coming to the big screen: Watchmen,...

Title:  Broken Angel Author:  Sigmund Brouwer Summary: Set in a Christian dystopia, in the not-so-far-off future, Broken Angel is the story of religious fundamentalism gone horribly wrong. Caitlin has grown up in Appalachia, an independent country within the United States run by fanatics who have...

Title: Feed Author: M.T. Anderson Summary: Imagine having the Internet in your head. In Feed, a dystopian novel set in a not-too-distant future, Titus has grown up with the feed: a computer chip installed at birth that connects him, and everyone else, to the Feednet. Instant messaging,...