Young Adult Dystopian Fiction

Charlotte Blackburn — beautiful, intelligent, a gifted tinkerer — lives in a cloistered world of wealth and privilege beneath the Electric Tesla Dome that shields survivors of The Great Calamity. But when her father is abducted, and a strange sickness starts transforming men into vicious monsters, she discovers that technology is no protection at all.

En un mundo distópico futurista, la civilización como la conocemos ha caído, la Ciudad de México también, y se ha dividido en un conjunto de reinos que mantienen una paz frágil e intentan sobrevivir aprovechando los restos de la tecnología de otra época. En el reino del Centro vive Sita, una adolescente que se ocupa, junto con su abuela Lucina, de mantener las comunicaciones del Fuerte, la base del cacique local.

Karrishma Britt has grown up as a child of the Vamkudza, protected and treasured as all the others. She has changed families more often than she can remember as fortunes rise and fall or favors are bought and sold. But other than occasional visits from parents who now claim her vote or trips at their request, she has always lived at the same boarding school - Akademia Balaplutarch.

In a world controlled by a powerful alien race, the Avalon, 17-year-old Alana Cain's life takes a shocking turn when she discovers she is part of an ancient group known as the Mirror Souls, individuals whose fates are intertwined with their soulmates. Torn from her family and paired with the enigmatic Aiden Merrick, Alana must learn to wield abilities that could shift the balance of power on Earth.

Though Meadowcity is besieged by Skycity's army, Sylvia Thorne manages to escape to seek help from the only people untouched by the war: the long-hidden city of Seascape. Can she convince them to interfere with a war between the cities they hid from for so long? When their leader challenges Sylvia to a set of ancient tests, Sylvia accepts without understanding the possibility that there might be more to the people of Seascape than she realizes.

Who wants to live a century before seeing the outside world? Not Ariadne. Restless and idealistic, the young immortal sneaks out of the Eves’ secret compound and finds the outside world more dangerous than she could have imagined. Cut off from her own kind and hunted by mortals, she is forced to hide among the Adams, the immortal sons born of her sisters. But the Adams have sinister plans of their own. Ariadne must find a way to stop them, even if it means sacrificing her immortal life.

Born in a boxcar on a train bound for Georgia. At least, that is what Papa Steel always told AB'Gale. But now, 15 years later, the man who adopted and raised her as his own is missing, and it's up to AB'Gale to find him. Aided only by a motley gang of friends, AB'Gale train hops her way across the United States in a desperate attempt to find her papa and put her life and family back the way it was.

Yes, Aza Wu now has magic back. But like all things in her life, it has come at a great cost. After the tournament, Aza is able to pay off her parents' debt to Saint Willow. Unfortunately, the cost of the gathering spell she used to strip Finch of his magic has put her permanently in the employ of the gang leader. Aza has been doing little errands using real magic - collecting debts, putting the squeeze on new businesses in the district. But that had never been the plan. Saint Willow is nothing if not ambitious, and having Aza as a fighter is much more lucrative than as a fixer.

It's 2096, 60 years after 90 percent died from a man-made Bioplague. Humanity has splintered into four unequal subspecies: Immortals, cyborgs, enhancers, and subservient half-human, half-animal hybrids. The world is anything but equal. Hybrids everywhere are suffering, but 16year-old Raek Mekorian, a wolfish with a nose for trouble, doesn’t see an alternative. Except the Resistance, who don’t stand a chance against the world government. His mom always said, “Keep your head down”.

Dather is an island that was once known as Ohau. A nation that rose from the ashes after an asteroid shower had divided itself when people began to discover their unique powers. At 16, Adaline sits in prison with her mother and younger brother, and today is Parting Day, where more prisoners will be executed. After seven years of being spared, Adaline’s luck has run out. But she won’t go quietly or easily.

A life without feelings, a life without decisions; that’s the only life Evangeline knows. Because of the manufacturing of Remedy, her community of Impetus has discovered a way to survive and prevent the self-destructing mistakes of The Before by inhibiting feelings, creating a society that relies wholly on logic and entrusts Impetus to make all the decisions for its people. A chance encounter results in a friendship between Evangeline and a boy outside of Impetus named Gavin who challenges Evangeline to reassess her conviction in the world she has always known.

In the aftermath of the Fracture's riots and explosions that rocked St. Paul, Ivan must fight to survive as his world crumbles around him. Everything he's known has changed, and when he returns to the palace, he will discover that lies and deceit stalk its halls. With the royal family split from within, Ivan and Julia find themselves at the heart of a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart their country.

Nueva York. 2120. Estados Unidos ha sido diezmado, exterminado por la Segunda Guerra Civil. En este mundo post apocalíptico, los sobrevivientes son escasos. Y la mayoría de ellos son miembros de una pandilla violenta de predadores que vive en las grandes ciudades. Ellos patrullan la campiña buscando esclavos, nuevas víctimas para llevar a la ciudad, para su deporte mortal favorito: la Arena Uno. El estadio de la muerte, donde los adversarios son obligados a pelear hasta la muerte, de manera salvaje. Sólo hay una regla en la Arena: nadie sobrevive. Nunca.

Welcome to the new world. We thought we were the last and all we had to do was survive the initial outbreak. Turns out the hard part is surviving each other. Man, the post-apocalypse is brutal. Most of the runners have phased out, but a fraction have survived. They are smarter, faster, and way more deadly. We were supposed to be safe, but the virus has mutated, making the infected smarter than anyone ever thought possible. Our only hope for survival is to make it to the Tower, where we'll be safe behind walls with a group of survivors just like us.

In the future, the American government establishes the Dept. of Reproductive Management to evaluate and approve a citizen’s right to have children. Any family created without a government permit is declared illegal, mercilessly hunted, arrested, and often, killed. Their illegal children are sent to reeducation centers where department-approved classes can ensure their distorted views are not passed on. For 16-year-old Maggie Ward, growing up in one of these centers is all she’s ever known. After learning her brother being trained break of families, she concocts a plan to escape.

Der Kampf der Geschlechter geht seinem Höhepunkt entgegen. Die Frauen rücken immer weiter in die Stadt der Männer vor, da treffen der Abt des Klosters und eine alte Heilerin aufeinander - und machen eine unglaubliche Entdeckung. Kann es gelingen, die Zeit zurückzudrehen?

La sedicenne Malencia Vale e il suo ragazzo Tomas frequentano il primo anno all'università di Tosu City. Scelta dal governo come una delle migliori menti della nuova generazione, Cia è una leader promettente, destinata a guidare la civilizzazione del dopoguerra. E anche se il governo ha cercato di cancellare dai suoi ricordi i brutali orrori della Prova, lei ne serba intatta la memoria.

Die Menschheit steht kurz vor ihrem Ende. Seit den "dunklen Jahren" leben die Geschlechter in erbitterter Feindschaft. Die Zivilisation ist untergegangen: Während die Männer in städtischen Ruinen hausen, haben die Frauen auf dem Land ein neues, streng abgeschottetes Leben angefangen. Kinder gibt es kaum noch, und wieder drohen neue Kämpfe. Als die 17-jährige Kriegerin Juna ausgesandt wird, einen Gefangenen zu nehmen, stößt sie ausgerechnet auf den jungen Mönch David, der nichts lieber tut, als sich in verbotene Schriften der alten Zeit zu flüchten.

Monster, Monster, klein und groß, werden dich packen und lassen nicht los. Der Gesang der Kinder in den Straßen ist verklungen. Verity City ist zerstört. Jede Nacht werden weitere Monster geboren. Aber Kate und August kämpfen unerbittlich. Sie haben beschlossen, keine Angst mehr zu haben. Da erhebt sich eine mächtige Kreatur: Sie ernährt sich von den verdunkelten Herzen der Menschen. Und sie wächst und wächst.

New Earth, 2296. Two years after the destruction of a universal surveillance system called the Intercept, New Earth struggles to keep crime under control. The citizens are free but not protected.