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The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2010]-
Language
English
Description
"How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us really worked to get something we wanted? How long has it been since any of us really needed something that we wanted? The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise...
4) The Giver
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
5) Soft City
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Series
Publisher
The New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
""GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY. . ." So dawns a new day in Soft City, where pill-stuffed citizens sit in traffic, march off to work at Soft Inc., zone out in front of the TV news, and shop, shop, shop. The only graphic novel by the legendary Norwegian pop artist Hariton Pushwagner-- completed in 1975, lost for decades, and never before published in the United States--is a scathing masterpiece in the tradition of Brazil and A Brave New World but with an...
6) Woman world
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Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When a birth defect wipes out the planet's entire population of men, Woman World rises out of society's ashes.
Publisher
BOOM! Studios, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Straight from the world of 'The Maze Runner' comes an anthology of five short stories revealing the hidden history of characters from the upcoming film. Explore how the terrifying W.C.K.D. (World in Catastrophe: Killzone Department) organization came to be, and how the very first Maze was designed. Find out what it takes to survive in a post-Flare world, against the violent Cranks that have begun to take over the world. Finally, discover that the...
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Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Mixing dystopian sci-fi, mythic fantasy, and zombie horror, Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis, is a graphic novel based on a suppressed opera composed in 1943 by two prisoners, Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann, at the Terezín concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The authors did not live to see their masterpiece performed. Set in an alternative universe where Atlantis never sank but instead became a technologically advanced tyranny, the power-mad...
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Image Comics
Pub. Date
Ã2009
Language
English
Description
"An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled-- no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living"--Page [4] of cover v. 1.
10) The hard switch
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Publisher
Avery Hill Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ada, Haika, and Mallic are on a mission . . . one last mission, before everything, everywhere shuts down. They're raiding old, abandoned spaceships and wrecks for the (sometimes-expensive) parts--and they make just enough money to get by. But living their nomadic, exploring life isn't sustainable when they can't afford fuel anymore. The time is coming when the mineral that makes inter-system jumps possible runs out. When it does, the scattered inhabitants...
11) Knee deep
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Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
Description
"Two hundred years in the future, refugees from an environmental cataclysm have fled underground. They survive, scrounging out a living in a twisted maze of tunnels and canals. Scavengers, mistitfs, bandits, renegades and mutants are among the citizens of this subterranean realm. They are sewerfolk, their home, the bowels of a utopian city that was never completed. Life is hard enough, but an overzealous mining company, PERCH wants to get their claws...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the imagination of legendary animator and two-time Oscar nominee Don Hertzfeldt comes a hilarious fever-dream vision of the apocalypse. Created during sleepless nights while he worked on his animated films, The End of the World was illustrated entirely on Post-It notes over the course of several years, slowly taking shape from all the deleted scenes, bad dreams, and abandoned ideas that were too strange to make it to the big screen, including...
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Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The U.S. political leaders of 2016 abandon the radioactive planet they've destroyed and harness the power of humanity's last hope: The Splitter, a colossal machaine designed to manufacture a bright new reality for them to infiltrate and corrupt."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism. The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the "correction" of all records each time the "Big Brother" decided that the truth had changed.
15) Sons of Ares
Author
Series
Publisher
Dynamite Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]-
Language
English
Description
V. 1. In the future, when mankind has spread across thestars, the hierarchy of man is dictated by the color of one's caste. TheGolds rule all, but what will happen when one falls for a lowly Red? See how aforbidden love will set the course of events for the future and lead to theformation of the formidable Sons of Ares! --Publisher.
V. 2. The world of Pierce Brown's Red Rising expands further in the next installment of the Sons of Ares storyline....
16) Birds of Maine
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Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Long after the demise of humankind, birds roam freely around a new earth complete with fruitful trees, sophisticated fungal networks, and an enviable socialist order. The universal worm feeds all, there are no weekends, and economics is as fantastical a study as unicorn psychology. No concept of money or wealth plagues the thoughts of these free-minded birds. Instead, there are angsty teens who form bands to show off their best bird song and other...
17) The Incal
Author
Publisher
Humanoids
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside down when he discovers an ancient, mystical artifact called 'The Incal.' Difool's adventures will bring him into conflict with the galaxy's greatest warrior, the Metabaron, and will pit him against the awesome powers of the Technopope. These encounters and many more make up a tale of comic and cosmic proportions that has Difool fighting for not only his...
18) Eden
Author
Publisher
Humanoids, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The world is dying. As government and the environment crumble, humanity's only hope is Eden, a newly discovered Earth-like planet unspoiled by the folly of man. Massive Edencorp spaceships begin to shuttle millions of people lucky enough to be chosen by the lottery to the bright future of Eden... but a bright future for whom?" --
19) Deep beyond
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Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]-
Language
English
Description
V. 1: "In an underpopulated future Earth, devastated by the dire consequences of the millennium bug, the survival of mankind - and, maybe, of the planet itself - is handled by a small number of people. Talented scientists who, despite the adverse situation and the stupid feuds that continue to divide the small number of people still alive, try to understand and study what is hidden in the depths of the abyss... Something mysterious and dangerous that...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
Description
"A prison the size of a city. A lonesome, snowy place that houses all manner of criminals. It's within this cage that an orphan named Chloe struggles to survive while caring for her baby brother. But when her neighbor hatches a plan to bust them out, the wheels of her fate begin to turn. This is the story of one girl's battle to hold onto hope."--Publisher marketing.