Body of Glass Marge Piercy    1991    448p    6 x 9 A dystopian future novel in the 22nd century where corporations control scarce world resources and remain luxurious, spick and span, while independent free zones remain in squalor but free and dangerous. The story follows Shira Shipman, working at one such corp called … Continue reading He, She and It →

George Orwell 1948 292p MMPB Classic anti-authoritarian novel about a totalitarianism. Set in the future dystopian world of 1984, where wars are fought with the same people that the government previously armed, language is being deconstructed and erased so that people don’t even know how to think and speak against the powerful few who run … Continue reading 1984 →

Suzzane Collins     2008     384p     5 x 8 In retribution for a crushed uprising years before, each region of the future, dystopian United States must send its children to fight each other to the death. What will people do to survive? What will people watch to be entertained (and forget … Continue reading The Hunger Games →

Margaret Atwood     1985     311p     MMPB Written after a visit to afghanistan in the ’80s, this is a dystopian tale about what could be the role of women in an american theocracy. $2-5 The Handmaid’s Tale in spanish   Other works involving margaret atwood, misogyny, feminsim, patriarchy, science fiction