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6 Out Of Print Classic Dystopian Novels / Trade Paperback Book Collection. Trade Paperback Lot in Very Good commensurate with age & use.
An exceptional collection of Vintage Collectible Classic Dystopian Lit. Minimal wear and use. No marks or annotations. Solid bindings.
"Lord of the Flies (is my selection for The Book That Changed My Life) because it is both a story with a message and because it is a great tale of adventure."
-STEPHEN KING, for the National Book Foundation, The Book That Changed My Life
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything
But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued
THE FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS
Bringing his twin gifts of arcane scientific speculation and scathing satirical language to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Stanislaw Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, lion ichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Isolated in c Third World resort hotel equipped with the latest luxury technology, Tichy and the academics find their speculative gabfest intruded upon by a particularly nasty revolution that the ruling junta attempts to control by introducing hallucinogenic "benignimizers" into the city's water system.
Inadvertently, the hotel's water supply is infused and scores of gibbering scientists pour out into the apocalyptic battle, Tichy among them. Confronting a death squad that he believes to be a hallucination, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure, and awakens in 2039 to find a future whose strangeness far exceeds anything the congress conjectured.
"A vision of earth's future where the authorities dose the population with "'psychemicals" to make life in a desperately over-populated world worth living."
- The Boston Globe
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE BY PHILIP K DICK:
In this Hugo Award–winning alternative history classic—the basis for the Amazon Original series—the United States lost World War II and was subsequently divided between the Germans in the East and the Japanese in the West.
It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In this world, we meet characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit Americana who is himself hiding his Jewish ancestry; Nobusuke Tagomi, the Japanese trade minister in San Francisco, unsure of his standing within the bureaucracy and Japan's with Germany; and Juliana Frink, Frank's ex-wife, who may be more important than she realizes.
These seemingly disparate characters gradually realize their connections to each other just as they realize that something is not quite right about their world. And it seems as though the answers might lie with Hawthorne Abendsen, a mysterious and reclusive author, whose best-selling novel describes a world in which the US won the War … The Man in the High Castle is Dick at his best, giving listeners a harrowing vision of the world that almost was.
“The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick’s career.”—New York
KLARA AND THE SUN by KAZOU ISHIGURO:
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY TAIKA WAITITI AND STARRING JENNA ORTEGA AND AMY ADAMS • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a magnificent novel about the wondrous, mysterious nature of the human heart.
“A masterpiece that will make you think about life, mortality, the saving grace of love: in short, the all of it.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR
Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.
A thrilling feat of world-building and a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, one that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
BRAVE NEW WORLD
A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present-considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring master-piece.
"Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his elo-quence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers." -Saturday Review of Literature
"A fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay."
—Forum
"It is as sparkling, as provocative, as bril-liant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive as the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art... This is surely Huxley's best book."
—MARTIN GREEN
GRAVITY’S RAINBOW BY THOMAS PYNCHON:
Winner of the National Book Award
"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." —The New Republic
“A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000.
Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
THE TRIAL BY FRANZ KAFKA:
A brilliant translation of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, revealing a tale that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written. From the author of The Metamorphosis.
Written in 1914, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, Kafka's nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers. This new edition is based upon the work of an international team of experts who have restored the text, the sequence of chapters, and their division to create a version that is as close as possible to the way the author left
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