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• Afterland

  Beukes, Lauren,

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  Three years after a plague has wiped out the male population, twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence, and pursued by Cole's own ruthless…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Water in the World

  a Novel

  Caffall, Eiren,

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  In the years after the glaciers melt, Nonie, her older sister, her parents, and their researcher friends have stayed behind in an almost deserted New York City, creating a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History. The rule:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blindness

  Saramago, José

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  A city is struck by an epidemic of "white blindness." Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards under instructions to shoot anyone trying to escape. Inside, the criminal element among the blind holds everyone…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Joan

  a Novel

  Yuknavitch, Lidia,

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  In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet's now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile home.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Borne

  a Novel

  VanderMeer, Jeff,

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  In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. The city is dangerous, littered with discarded experiments from the Company - a biotech firm now derelict - and punished by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City of Orange

  Yoon, David,

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  A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone. He used to live in a place called California, but how did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pills in his pocket? He navigates his surroundings, one rough shape at a time.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dating After the End of the World

  Rose, Jeneva,

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  Casey Pearson grew up with a doomsday-prepping father. At eighteen, tired of living an unconventional life, she left home, vowing never to return. More than a decade later, a mysterious viral outbreak changes everything, including the people it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Drowned World

  Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009

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  The Drowned World imagines a terrifying world in which global warming has melted the ice caps and primordial jungles have overrun a tropical London. Set during the year 2145, this novel follows biologist Dr. Robert Kearns and his team of scientists…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Even If the Sky Is Falling

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  When an international warning siren accidentally goes off, convincing everyone that a meteor shower may just be the end of life as they know it, six couples--friends, exes, crushes and rivals--must take shelter. Inhibitions are abandoned,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fifth Season

  Jemisin, N. K.,

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  Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Future

  a Novel

  Alderman, Naomi,

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  When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she’s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Future Home of the Living God

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  Evolution stops as mysteriously as it began. Pregnancy and childbearing quickly become issues of state security. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar, the adopted daughter of idealistic Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Who Have Never Known Men

  Harpman, Jacqueline,

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  Deep underground, thirty-nine 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. As the burn of electric light merges day…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Island of Last Things

  Sloley, Emma,

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  Camille has always preferred animals to people. The wild has nearly disappeared, but as a zookeeper at the last zoo in the world, on Alcatraz Island, she spends her days caring for playful chimpanzees, gentle tree frogs, and a restless jaguar.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Julia

  a Novel

  Newman, Sandra, 1965-

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  London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Murder at the End of the World

  a Novel

  Turton, Stuart,

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  Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two villagers and three scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leave the World Behind

  a Novel

  Alam, Rumaan,

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  Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Light Pirate

  Brooks-Dalton, Lily, 1987-

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  Florida as we know it is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Set thirty years in the future, a young woman suffering from hyperempathy, to feel others' pain as well as her own, makes a dangerous journey north from Southern California.