Dystopia

Dystopia is a form of literature that explores social and political structures. It is a creation of a nightmare world - unlike its opposite, Utopia, which is an ideal world.

Dystopia is often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government. It often features multiple kinds of repressive social control systems, a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expressions, and a state of constant warfare or violence.

Many novels combine Dystopia and Utopia, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of the two poss
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For Human Use
The People's Library
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
After the Fall
The Forest on the Edge of Time
The Hospital at the End of the World
This Safe Darkness (Sols & Shades)
Eradication: A Fable
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Pretenders to the Throne of God (The Tyrant Philosophers, #4)
Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur
Free for All #1
The Whims of Love (Monstrous Whims, #3)
We Call Them Witches
A Wild Radiance
Alchemised
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
Operation Bounce House
Dating After the End of the World
The Poppy Fields
The Polymorph
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)
Shroud
Red City (The New Alchemists, #1)
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
Making Space (The Time Traveler's Passport)
The People's Library
The School for Good Mothers
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1984
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
The Handmaid's Tale
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)

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