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• Animal Farm

  Orwell, George, 1903-1950

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  A satire on totalitarianism features farm animals that overthrow their human owner and set up their own government, only to develop into an equally corrupt society.

• A Clockwork Orange

  Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993

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  Anthony Burgess's hero, the hedonistic and violent Alex, is our guide on a journey into a dystopian future where sociopathic youths rule the night and the authorities emulate their moral indifference in the pursuit of social order.

• Dawn

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali; who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fahrenheit 451

  Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012

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  In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Handmaid's Tale

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  A look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.

• The Man in the High Castle

  Dick, Philip K.,

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  In 1962 in America, slavery is legal again. Twenty years earlier the United States lost a war and is now being occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.

• Neuromancer

  Gibson, William, 1948-

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  Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the Matrix until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a mirror-eyed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parasite

  Grant, Mira

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  Genetically engineered tapeworms that protect most of the human populace from illness, boost everyone's immune system and even secrete designer drugs begin to change and want out of human bodies they occupy.