Teen Dystopian Fiction

Every cure has a cost. Tatum Masterson learned this after years of being monitored by The Program. She witnessed it when her boyfriend, Wes, came back changed, erased. And now, even the newest “cure” has a heavy cost - one she and Wes paid. The Adjustment came into Tatum’s life just when she thought she needed it most, a promise for Wes to get back his forgotten memories. But when the procedure went wrong, a revelation shattered everything Tatum thought she knew. Now, with no one left to trust, Tatum must find out what really happened last summer.

Welcome to a society governed through computer games! On New Earth, society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. If you win, you have the chance to fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing. When teenage Erik dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends must face the Committee. If Erik and his friends win, they may have the key to destroying the Committee's tyranny. But if they lose....

A deadly and unprecedented virus is spreading. But those who survive it experience long-term effects no one has ever seen before: utter contentment. Soon after infection, people find the stress, depression, greed, and other negative feelings are gone. People in power—who depend on malcontents and prey on the insecure to sell their products, and convince others they need more, new, faster, better everything—know this new state of being is bad for business. Surely, without anger or jealousy as motivators, productivity will grind to a halt and the world will be thrown into chaos.

In the near-future United States, a one-child policy is ruthlessly enforced. Everyone follows the Rule of One. But Ava Goodwin, daughter of the head of the Texas Family Planning Division, has a secret - one her mother died to keep and her father has helped to hide for her entire life. She has an identical twin sister, Mira.

The refugee caves have been destroyed, and most of the refugees are dead. The Potentate now knows of their existence and will stop at nothing to wipe them out completely.

Ridley Kayne has discovered she’s not alone. There are others with magic just like hers. Those who are also hunted by the Shadow Society. Elementals. With Archer’s help, Ridley sets out to find the other elementals living in Lumina City. They’ll have to be careful not to draw the attention of the Shadow Society or the law - or Ridley’s dad, who would prefer she stay away from those with illegal magic like hers. So Ridley does whatever she can to pretend life is back to normal. Until the night her magic is discovered.

Mexicoland es perfecto, lo mejor de México en un solo lugar: historia, música y comida. Lo malo es que todo es falso. Es un parque de diversiones en el futuro, el resto del país ha colapsado por la violencia y la anarquía. Apenas sobrevive un pequeño territorio donde se funda México Nuevo, una sociedad en la que cualquier delito es castigado con extrema crueldad. Ahí, Cuauhtémoc Rojo, en un solo día, se queda sin padres, escuela y casa. Pronto descubrirá que si quiere sobrevivir, necesita encontrar respuestas: ¿quiénes son esos extraños ancianos que lo vigilan?

Die Fraktionen haben sich aufgelöst und Tris und Four erfahren, dass ihr ganzes Leben eine Lüge ist: Es gibt eine Welt außerhalb ihrer Stadt, außerhalb des Zauns. Für Tris und Four steht fest, dass sie diese neue Welt erkunden wollen. Gemeinsam. Doch sie müssen erkennen, dass die Lüge hinter dem Zaun größer ist, als alles, was sie sich vorstellen konnten, und die Wahrheit stellt ihr Leben völlig auf den Kopf.

Die Aufnahme in eine der fünf Fraktionen sollte ein feierliches Ereignis für Beatrice werden - und endete in einer Katastrophe: Zwar konnte die 16-Jährige, die als Unbestimmte über besondere Fähigkeiten verfügt, verhindern, dass ihre gesamte ehemalige Fraktion ausgelöscht wird. Doch viele mussten ihr Leben lassen. Mit den Überlebenden haben Beatrice und ihr Freund Tobias sich zu den Amite geflüchtet. Aber auch dort sind sie nicht sicher, denn der Krieg zwischen den Fraktionen hat gerade erst begonnen.

Wren is in the last place she ever wanted to be: backinside the dome. Held as a prisoner of her father, the Master General Enforcer,she is completely cut off from the outside. After a harrowing escape attempt,and finding Levi trapped in a cell, Wren's world is further turned upside downby what could be Pace's ultimate betrayal. Only Pace's whispered words keepher from losing all hope. "Things are not always what they seem." Those words,along with the sight of yellow-feathered Pip keep Wren fighting for what sheknows in her heart is right for everyone. She must break the glass.

When Wren's father realizes that his rebellious daughterand her friends are not falling into his plan of complacency, he turns themover to an even darker enemy. While Levi is certain his uncle will save them,the Quest and all their friends outside the dome seem to have disappeared.

The outside world is a brutal place, but Wren will not bebeaten. She holds strong to her belief that outside the glass there is thepromise of freedom and the hope for love. Wren must battle the forces that wantto enslave her, and the foolish whims of her own heart to free her world andfinally find where she belongs.

Regret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water. Lynn knows every threat to her pond: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and, most important, people looking for a drink. She makes sure anyone who comes near the pond leaves thirsty or doesn't leave at all. Confident in her own abilities, Lynn has no use for the world beyond the nearby fields and forest. Hving a pond requires the fortitude to protect it, something Mother taught her well during their quiet hours on the rooftop, rifles in hand.

Quatre jeunes Québécois, Sarah-Jo, Peter, Cat et Cédric, se rendent en Thaïlande dans le but de participer à un concours international de robotique. Avant leur retour au pays, les apprentis scientifiques visitent les bureaux d’Athéna, une compagnie qui se spécialise dans l’intelligence artificielle. Les dirigeants de l’entreprise font aux élèves une offre irrésistible : interagir avec les plus récents humanoïdes afin d’étudier les relations qui peuvent se tisser entre les humains et les robots.

In the future the UN has brought back an ancient way to keep the peace. The children of world leaders are held hostage - if a war begins, they pay with their lives. Greta is the crown princess of the Panpolar Confederacy, a superpower formed of modern-day Canada. She is also a child of peace, a hostage held by the de facto ruler of the world: the great artificial intelligence, Talis. The hostages are Talis' strategy to keep the peace: If her country enters a war, Greta dies.

Wisty has never felt as free as she does with Heath, especially when the two of them share and test their magic together. But when a merciless Wizard King from the mountains suddenly threatens war, Wisty must make an excruciating choice. Will she unite with Whit to fight the mounting dangers that could return their world to a tyrant's domain? Or will she trust the beautiful boy who has captured her heart?

In a not-too-distant America, abortions are prosecuted and the right to choose is no longer an option. But best friends Laylah and Noor want to change the world. After graduating high school, they’ll become an OBGYN and a journalist, but in the meantime, they’re working on an illegal guide to abortion in Texas. In response to the unfair laws, underground networks of clinics have sprung up, but the good fight has gotten even more precarious as it becomes harder to secure safe medication and supplies.

Life in the Underground really freakin’ sucks. No freedom, no sunlight, and the whole place smells like armpit. That's what life has been like for Sam and his little sister Ella for the past eight years, ever since the Draft took their parents. So pretty much hell. But at least they had each other. Until they didn’t. As if Underground life couldn’t get any worse, Ella mysteriously goes missing without a trace.

If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe's wake - whether set in the years soon after the change, or in decades far in the future.

On the run, Milla must find a way to survive. Her desperate escape was just the beginning. The lives of Old Tritoners are at stake. If Milla doesn't fight back, innocent people will die. Caught up in a dangerous war, Milla uncovers what's really going on. But she can't stop it alone. What will happen when Cale learns she lied to him about who - and what - she is?

Six months after the fall of The Program, ex-handler Michael Realm is struggling with his guilt. After all, he was instrumental in erasing the memories of several patients - including one he claimed to love. With a lifetime of regret stretched before him, Realm vows to set things right.

Alenna Shawcross and the others who escaped the wheel are working toward an all-out assault on the United Northern Alliance. The plan is to dismantle it from the inside - and Alenna is one of the few people who can access the organization's inner sanctum. But when she returns to the home she has nearly forgotten, she encounters old friends and is swept into a secret plan that puts everything she loves in danger.