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1) Messenger
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
3) BZRK
Author
Series
BZRK volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
In the near future, the conjoined Armstrong twins, under the guise of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, plot to create their own version of utopia using nanobots, while a guerilla group known as BZRK develops a DNA-based biot that can stop bots, but at risk of the host's brain.
5) Lost horizon
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Language
English
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Thrilling and timeless, Lost Horizon is a masterpiece of modern fiction, and one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century. Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British diplomat serving in Afghanistan and facing war yet again-this time, a civil conflict forces him to flee the country by plane.
When Conway's (a British diplomat) plane crashes...
6) Gated
Author
Series
Gated volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lyla feels ambivalent when the charismatic leader of her isolated suburban community is told that the end of the world is near and when it arrives they must all be ready to defend themselves against the unchosen.
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Series
BZRK volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The struggle for control between the Armstrong twins and the group known as BZRK continues with the stakes higher than ever.
8) Perfect ruin
Author
Series
Internment chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives in Internment, a floating city utopia. But when a murder occurs, everything she knows starts to unravel"--
9) Astray
Author
Series
Gated volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Lyla thought she was free from the survivalist Community, but it is hard to break the hold their leader Pioneer has even though he is in jail--and he is planning to use his powerful influence to get his revenge on Lyla and the town.
Author
Series
Keeper of tales trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After being given an apprenticeship to chart her entire kingdom, young Aoife encounters a secretive culture of wealthy and peaceful people who she protects by enduring a harrowing exile.
11) The firefly code
Author
Series
Firefly code volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in Old Harmonie, a utopian community where every kid knows he or she is genetically engineered to be better and smarter, but when a strangely perfect new girl named Ilana moves in, the friends begin to question the only world they have ever known.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After losing her child and seeing the world as an increasingly dangerous place, a young Black woman from Boston decides to construct a separate society at an abandoned restaurant in Western Massachusetts. She locates a benefactor and soon it all begins to take shape, but it doesn't take long for problems to develop"--
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed--because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling, idealistic world, and that's before his life gets turned upside down. Utterly blindsided by an accident...
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Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possible his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Urras, to challenge the complex structures of life and living,...
15) Halcyon
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English
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"HALCYON is the answer for all Americans who want to escape, but paradise isn't what it seems. A beautiful island in the middle of Lake Ontario--a self-sustaining community made up of people who want to live without fear, crime, or greed. Halcyon is run by Valerie Kemp, aka Mother Moon, benevolent and altruistic on the outside, but hiding an unimaginable darkness inside. She has dedicated her life to the pursuit of Glam Moon, a place of eternal beauty...
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English
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"A riveting novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia--where the truth isn't what it seems. Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being,...
17) Yi ji wan jia
Author
Series
Hit chang xiao shuo volume 30
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Traditional Chinese edition of Ready Player One
一個危險的世界,一次務必贏得的勝利 你 ,準備好了嗎? ★全球千萬書迷引頸企盼 史蒂芬‧史匹柏親導改編電影 ★長達87週盤距《紐約時報》排行榜 58國熱銷 翻譯為37種外語版本 ★《星際大戰》、《魔戒》、《哈利波特》之後最令人屏息的重磅娛樂經典 ★強勢橫掃亞馬遜網路書店、邦諾書店、哈德遜書店、圖書館期刊、娛樂週刊等重量媒體...
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Series
Terra Ignota volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. All it needed was a catalyst, in form of special little boy...
19) Kinning
Author
Series
Everfair volume 2
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The Great War is over. Everfair has found peace within its borders r heroes stories are far from done. Tink and his sister Bee-Lung are traveling the world via aircanoe, spreading the spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus. Through these spores, they seek to build bonds between people and help spread revolutionary sentiments of socialism and equalitythe very ideals that led to Everfairs founding. Meanwhile, Everfairs Princess Mwadi and...
20) Savage legion
Author
Series
Savage rebellion volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"They call them Savages. Brutal. Efficient. Expendable. The empire relies on them. The greatest weapon they ever developed. Culled from the streets of their cities, they take the ones no one will miss and throw them, by the thousands, at the empire's enemies. If they live, they fight again. If they die, well, there are always more. Evie is not a Savage. She's a warrior with a mission: to find the man she once loved, to find the man who holds the key...
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