Young Fiction Dystopian

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.

Although the New World Federation’s music-powered engines allow them to traverse and mine the mazelike nebula known as Caerdroia, the colony space stations are dying, with no actual new world in sight. But Jude Aberdeen is more than just a Federation guitarist; he’s a believer. Like his grandfather before him, Jude sees visions of a Green Place when he resonates with his music, a New Earth somewhere out beyond Caerdroia’s coils.

They thought escaping the undead hordes was their ticket to freedom. They couldn't have been more wrong. Now Wren and Robyn must face a new enemy and a kind of danger like no other they have encountered. Their success means a chance of survival for everyone they care about. Their failure means the end of everything they have fought for. For these two sisters time is running out fast and the sun is setting on the longest day of their lives. Just one question still remains, will they get to see the dawn?

Six months after Noam Álvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor. But despite Lehrer's image as a progressive humanitarian leader, Noam has finally remembered the truth that Lehrer forced him to forget - that Lehrer is responsible for the deadly magic infection that ravaged Carolinia.

What would you do if every spark of electricity suddenly vanished, as if somebody had flipped a switch on the entire planet? Cars won't start, the heat shuts off, there's no water in your faucet, and your radio, TV, and flashlight go dark. Everyone in Charlie's small town is baffled. But as time passes, lawlessness erupts and takes an ugly turn. When the market and pharmacy are torched by an anti-Semitic arsonist, Charlie realizes his mother will die without her medicine.

In a new world isolated by a rising, toxic sea, a single bridge connects Askala to the Outlands. Those who remain will need to pass a "proving" to determine if they have the intelligence and heart to champion the future of their broken Earth. Those who succeed will become Bound, the ones chosen to breed. Those who fail, are Unbound. Free of responsibility, but robbed of their ability to bear children.

Envy of the other girls, Zaria was born for the sea. Nobody questions her fate as the chosen braenese to marry Keroe, God of the Sea - least of all her. And even if she did, she has no choice. When Zaria’s wedding day finally arrives, she'll become the only islander of her generation permitted to cross into the God Sea. There’s nothing more she could possibly want.

It's been five years since the Biafran War ended. Ify is now 19 and living where she's always dreamed - the Space Colonies. She is a respected, high-ranking medical officer and has dedicated her life to helping refugees like herself rebuild in the Colonies.

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....

Ein Kampf auf Liebe, Leben und Tod - Die Hungerspiele gehen weiter. "Gefährliche Liebe" ist der zweite Band aus der "Tribute von Panem"-Trilogie. Die Geschichte der Hungerspiele ist noch nicht vorbei: Zwar sind Katniss und Peeta dank ihrer erfundenen Liebesgeschichte dem Tod entronnen, doch nun müssen sie sich als Liebespaar ausgeben. Der Grund: Katniss ist zur Symbolfigur einer Widerstandsbewegung geworden.

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.

She wanted to destroy the monarchy. Now she must battle to save her prince. Zea resumes her role as a spy, but this time against the people she once pledged her loyalty - the Red Runners. Rescuing Prince Kevon won’t be easy, especially when suspicion plagues Zea's every step. She also doesn’t know how the prince will react to learning her terrible truth.

On the day she went silent, Speth never meant for anyone to follow her lead - or to start a rebellion of Silents. But after taking down the tyrant Silas Rog and freeing the city from his grasp, everyone is looking to Speth for answers she doesn’t have. All she wants is to find her parents, who are shackled to a lifetime of servitude in exchange for a debt they can never repay. But how can Speth leave her friends to fend for themselves when she’s the reason their city is in chaos?

We'd done it. After tackling her first mission and coming to terms with her power of empathy, Andriana discovers her first battles were only a taste of what is to come. She and her knight Ronan have admitted their feelings for each other, but their bonds are tested when Dri is captured by their mortal and spiritual enemy - Sethos - and his master Keallach, emperor of Pacifica.

After nearly freezing to death on their trek north, Brooke and her small group wake to find themselves in civilization. Brooke soon realizes, though, that being safe and secluded is not all there is to life...Brooke finds herself facing the choice of a lifetime: to live in this perfect place, free and safe for the rest of her days, or to embark and fight for others’ freedom. It would be a journey, she knows, back through post-apocalyptic America, this time traveling west, across its breadth, in search of the rumored survivors, of her father.

Rebecca and Daniel have never met. A 15-year-old preacher's kid and a 16-year-old atheist outcast, they appear to have little in common. And yet they both have attracted the attention of a recruiter for Angel Island, where bad kids go to be remade-or destroyed. Agents of the all-powerful New America Unity Church will stop at nothing to get them. They're building an army, a modern children's crusade, in which Rebecca and Daniel may be just the kind of future leaders they need. If not, they might be just the kind of sacrifice necessary to keep the rest of the faithless in line.

Someone is after Starters like Callie and Michael - teens with chips in their brains. They want to experiment on anyone left over from Prime Destinations - Starters who can be controlled and manipulated. With the body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has to rent herself out to creepy Enders. But Enders can still get inside her mind and make her do things she doesn't want to do. Like hurt someone she loves.

Sixteen-year-old Frost understands why she's spent her entire life in an abandoned apartment building. The ruined streets below are hunting grounds for rogue robots and Eaters. She understands why she's never met a human besides her father. She even understands why he forbids her to look for medicine for her dying pet. But the thing is, it's not her real father giving the orders. It's his memories.

In the New Pacific Alliance's post-apocalyptic ruins, Cora, an orphan with latent powers, navigates a world where zombies blur the line between human and monster. Trained in martial arts, she's unprepared for the chaos unleashed by a zombie infection that destroys her simple life and awakens her ability to turn mundane objects into "Ethereal Artifacts"—powerful weapons sought by shadowy foes. Forced into the heart of a crumbling society, Cora, alongside a mysterious ally bound to her destiny, battles to uncover the truth behind the outbreak and her own extraordinary fate.

When Senna Rhys turns eighteen, she must go through the Tithe, a rite of passage to adulthood and a selection process that claims ten souls for the treaty with the wall. The unpaired are chosen first—securing the next generation to supply the Tithe is the foundation of Ironcross's survival.