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Looking for dystopian novel with a terraplane race [duplicate]
I have a memory of reading a book (in English) in school in the UK during the mid-90s (probably '94 and definitely no later than '96), that was set in a dystopian future, but can't remember the name ...
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Corporate Dystopia book from the early 2000s
I read a book in the early 2000s (which is when I think it was published). It was set in a near future dystopia where corporations had taken over all public services. Poverty was outlawed and being ...
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Book about a man who is at the age where a lottery is taken of the elderly and he's chosen to be "put down", leaving a sad grandson
A man and his grandson are very close. When someone turns a certain age (70 or 80) they are put in a lottery of sorts and whoever is picked must be put to death, supposedly to control population. It ...
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Dystopian book series about teenage girl who didn't die on her "death date"
I read a series of books around 2020 (the latest one was released whilst I was reading).
It was about a teen girl who lived in a world where you found out the day you died, your 'death date'. There ...
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Video Game competition brainwashes kids into soldiers
I remember reading this book when I was young but I can't seem to find it anywhere.
The plot follows a boy who embodies ADHD characteristics.
His school curriculum is programmed by a computer. For ...
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Book where it's a new future ice age and they worship Apple
It was like a Sci fi book where there was a new ice age, everything was iced over but the humans found old Apple products and thought the old humans worshipped God Apple, the main character was a girl,...
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Book about a boy living in a futuristic building underground because of toxic air at the surface
I've been searching for this book for years but still no clues today. I think I read it in high school so it must be between 2012-2014. I don't remember if it was an old or modern book, but here is ...
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Trying to remember book title: dystopian world where people have to have sex every day to survive
This book is set in a city where frequent sex (without pleasure) is the only way to survive. Then, somebody falls in love. May be first book of a trilogy. Would have been written before 2001.
I should ...
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Book about a floating city with advanced technology
I'm looking for a book of which I do not remember the author or title.
The details is that it features multiple characters perspectives, all centered around an advanced city floating in the ocean.
One ...
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Dystopian books series in which the protagonists are a girl and boy escaping a controlled society
The books themselves weren't incredibly long. There were three books in the series when I read them. I had read them in early 2000's/2010's - I remember they had something to do with the "shadows&...
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YA novel about a girl in dystopian society who gets surgically altered to be a double for a dead girl
The series is set in a dystopian society where everyone takes a test at 17-ish to determine their “number” which determines their place in society. I think 7 or 8 is the highest but only the founding ...
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Young adult book series about a teen who goes into a Texas prison while fighting aliens
I read this about six years ago. It is a trilogy, I believe. The story starts off with a girl who is surviving on her own, trying to find her family. Later in the book, she joins a colony where she ...
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Series of novels from the '90s, set in a dystopian future, where a young rebel engages in acts of terrorism to fight the system
I'm trying to find a series of novels from the '90s that I read as a teenager back then. Here's what I remember (sorry, it's more than a bit vague, but it was a long time ago and my memory fails me):
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Book where the main character lives in a sci-fi dystopia and is "sorted" and gets powers
The main character is male, everyone gets sorted/goes through some scanner thing and it's usually fine. For some reason his mom gets sorted red and I can't remember if she dies because of that? It ...
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Sci-fi dystopian novel where not being addicted to any substance is illegal
I'm looking to identify a sci-fi novel I read as a teenager I scarcely remember now:
Dystopian setting.
Not being addicted to any substance is illegal. Smart people choose to get away with being ...
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