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The Coming Race
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A wealthy explorer stumbles upon a subterranean utopian culture and is forced to confront many philosophical questions regarding the world which he has come from and the ultimate future of modern society.
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Y: The Last Man: Book 2
Cycles
by Brian K. Vaughan
Collects Y: The Last Man #6-10When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown suddenly discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is... (more)
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When the Sleeper Wakes
by H. G. Wells
Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the advances it will bring, is stricken with insomnia. Finally resorting to medication, he instantly falls into a deep sleep that lasts over two hundred years. Upon waking in the twenty-second century to a strange and nightmarish place, he slowly discovers he is master of the world, revered by an adoring populace who... (more)
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The Time Machine / The Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells
The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. The Time Machine, Wells’s first novel, is a tale of Darwinian evolution taken to its extreme. Its hero, a young scientist, travels... (more)
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Y: The Last Man: Book 1
Unmanned
by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
Collects Y: The Last Man #1-5When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited by women. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is the last man on... (more)
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Y: The Last Man: Book 4
Safeword
by Brian K. Vaughan
Collects Y: The Last Man #18-23When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown suddenly discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is... (more)
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Y: The Last Man: Book 5
Ring of Truth
by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Jose Marzan, Jr.
Collects Y: The Last Man #24-31When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown suddenly discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is... (more)
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Y: The Last Man: Book 8
Kimono Dragons
by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
Collects Y: The Last Man #43-48When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown suddenly discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is... (more)
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Y: The Last Man: Book 6
Girl on Girl
by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
Collects Y: The Last Man #32-36When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown suddenly discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is... (more)
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Y: The Last Man: Book 3
One Small Step
by Brian K. Vaughan
Collects Y: The Last Man #11-17When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown suddenly discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is... (more)
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Y: The Last Man: Book 10
Whys and Wherefores
by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
Collects Y: The Last Man #55-60When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown suddenly discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is... (more)
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Y: The Last Man: Book 7
Paper Dolls
by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
Collects Y: The Last Man #37-42When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown suddenly discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is... (more)
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's Utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of Soma, to fight depression. Babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," (a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, touch and tastes). Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and... (more)
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets in which signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant because, in an age of declining... (more)
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Or, the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
One of the world's great anti-war books and centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
A classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures.Kind of has a story line of societyfwfgyhyalsdivgfasdlfv
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1984
by George Orwell
Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, 1984 is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life — the ubiquity of television, the... (more)
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The Giver Quartet: Book 1
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
Citation:Lowry, L. (1993). The giver. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. Genre: Modern Fantasy/Science FictionA major theme of this text set is accepting differences and overcoming the obstacles created by these differences. This novel is set in a society that values conformity and makes every attempt to eliminate individuality. I included this novel in the text set, so that... (more)
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Looking Backward
From 2000 to 1887
by Edward Bellamy
Set in Boston on December 26, 2000, but written before the turn of the nineteenth century, this classic Utopian novel is more significant and relevant than ever with its reappearance this millennium. Addressing moral and material concerns of late nineteenth century industrial America through romantic narrative, Bellamy suggests a fictionalized society in which war, poverty, and malice do not exist.
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Blindness: Book 1
Blindness
by José Saramago
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession... (more)

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