The World in Dystopian Novels

"1984" is a great political fable. In 1984, the world was divided between three superpowers. Wars continued between the three countries, and the internal social structures of the countries were completely broken. They all implemented highly centralized rule, using extreme means such as changing history, changing languages, and breaking up families to suppress people's thoughts and instincts. They also used high-tech means to monitor and control people's behavior, and maintained the operation of society with the personal worship of leaders and hatred of domestic and foreign enemies.

This novel gave birth to "The Matrix"! Cyberpunk Bible! Unprecedented record of winning awards: including Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Philip K. Dick Award! A genius hacker, a female killer, a special forces officer, and an expert in mind manipulation. They are hired to do two things: steal a key and obtain a password. They are career criminals and hopeless misanthropes; they are in self-imposed exile while subconsciously searching for a way home. And their employer is the most powerful opponent that mankind has ever encountered since the beginning of civilization...

Philip Roth's late masterpiece, winner of the 2005 Association of American Historians "Outstanding American Historical Fiction Award". "The Plot Against America" ​​is a shocking "counterfactual novel" that presents a semi-fictional alternative history of the United States. Philip Roth uses real details, reasonable situations, and a child's perspective to tell the story of Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous flying hero and fanatical isolationist, who overwhelmingly defeated Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. From then on, every Jewish American family lived in the shadow of fear. During the anti-Semitic government of Lindbergh, ordinary Jewish families living in Newark experienced years of horrific violence, and millions of Jewish families were torn apart... This post-9/11 work recreates a dark period that has been gradually forgotten by the United States, dramatically showing the lingering fear that envelopes the United States.

Jack Gradini's extended family leads an ordinary and typical modern life, with regular supermarket shopping trips and Friday TV dinners being the cornerstones of their "happiness." However, a chemical leak sent deadly poisonous fog into the sky, announcing to him that "death has arrived, it is in your body." Fear has invaded every corner of the mind. It is like white noise, consistent and everywhere. "White Noise" won DeLillo the National Book Award. Since its publication, it has been hailed as a literary classic and the pinnacle representative of postmodern literature. It accurately describes the damage caused by modern civilization to the human mind and body, presents people's panic in the face of death, faith, disaster and violence, and makes a prophetic prediction of the plight of modern people.

"Invitation to the Beheading" is a masterpiece of dystopian novels by the outstanding American novelist Nabokov. It shows the bizarre illusion of the irrational world and satirizes the Kafkaesque black comedy tragedy of totalitarian rule. It is a novel worth reading by everyone.

"The Time Machine" is a science fiction novel published by the famous British novelist Herbert George Wells in 1895. This book is also Wells' first science fiction novel. Some critics identified the publication of this book as "the first year of the birth of science fiction." The work describes a scientist who travels to AD 802,701 through a time travel machine. At this time, the earth was full of palace-like buildings. Humanity evolved into two categories: the Eloi and the Morlocks. The author will describe the elegant nobles as animals raised by Moloch and also used as food, showing a gloomy scene of human degradation.

Science fiction writer and illustrator Philip River's debut novel "Mortal Engines" became a best-selling novel as soon as it was published. Since then, he has successively released "Sin Bounty", "Evil Device", and "Dark Plains", forming a four-part series of Mortal Engines. Peter Jackson, the director of "Lord of the Rings" commented that "each of them is better than the last. The story develops in an unexpected direction, so cool!" Since then, the movie "Prey City" adapted from "Mortal Engines" has appeared on big screens around the world in 2018. Philip River is also known as one of the greatest British science fiction novelists of the 21st century. This set of "Mortal Engines Series Quadrilogy" includes a total of 4 volumes including "Mortal Engines", "Sin Bounty", "Evil Device" and "Dark Plains".

"A new order can only be born after being watered with countless blood." The dystopian work of Japanese ghost writer Yusuke Takashi, the winner of the 29th Japan Science Fiction Novel Award, is a "masterpiece" of the fantasy horror novel "The Malice is Revealed"; the original work of the animation "From the New World" voiced by Hanazawa Kana, Kaji Yuki, and Namikawa Daisuke is a fantasy story about the "future world" 1000 years later. "The Malice is Revealed" makes people want to worship it. The story takes place 1000 years later, when people gave up high technology and lived a pre-modern agricultural life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset. What is different from human ancestors is that in this society, everyone has super powers such as moving objects with their thoughts and igniting fire with their thoughts ("spell power"). The world composed of new humans with a body like a mortal, but abilities like a god, with such a contradictory structure is called the "New World." But what does this kind of divine power mean to humans?

The global best-seller, the new version of "The Handmaid's Tale" and its sequel "The Testimony" are released simultaneously; the American TV series of the same name has won five Emmy Awards and has been a hit for three seasons. The sequel is about to be adapted into a TV series, continuing the "Handmaid's Tale" TV series' ratings success. How far away are we from a world where women are reduced to "reproductive machines"? The author has long predicted: There are many ways we can lead to self-destruction. Margaret Atwood, the "Queen of Canadian Literature", is a cautionary fable that has sparked heated discussions at home and abroad. "The Handmaid's Tale" has concise language and meaningful meaning, creating a mood of chaos, despair and gloom, while this sequel "Testimony" is like a slowly lit beacon. This set contains all 2 volumes of The Handmaid's Series "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Testimony".

A classic masterpiece by a contemporary science fiction master, it caused a huge sensation when it was first published fifty years ago and is considered an important masterpiece of dystopian novels. Fahrenheit 451 is the ignition point of paper. The story takes place in a world that suppresses freedom of thought. All books here are banned. The job of firefighters is not to put out fires, but to burn books. The protagonist of the novel has been a firefighter for ten years, but he has never doubted his job until one day he meets a strange girl and begins to have doubts about his job, until he launches a challenge to the world.

In a ruin called North America, there is a newly established country "Panam", with twelve administrative districts distributed in all directions surrounding the splendid capital Capitol. This strict and cruel capital forces each of the twelve districts to draw lots to select one boy and one girl as a "tribute" to participate in the annual event and fight to the death live on television in order to control and maintain its ruling order. Katniss, 16, is good at hunting. She lives in District 12 with her mother and sister Prim. Unfortunately, the weak and kind-hearted sister Prim draws the "lot of life and death" with no return. In order to save her sister's life, Katniss resolutely takes her sister's place in a ruthless, cruel and bloody hunting game. After Katniss struggled on the verge of death, survival became second nature to her. Peeta, who has a crush on Katniss, saves her life several times and finally touches Katniss's heartstrings of love. 24 Boys and girls have to defeat all opponents, but in the end there is only one winner.

The original novel of Kubrick's classic film "A Clockwork Orange" was selected into "Time" magazine's "Top 100 English Novels", unabridged version, brand new translation. "When you can't choose, you cease to be human." "A Clockwork Orange" is the representative work of British writer Anthony Burgess. The book uses genius imagination to describe the collision between freedom and power. It shocked the world as soon as it was published and spawned Kubrick's classic film of the same name. The novel's portrayal of lost youth and reflection on free will are of epoch-making significance in the history of literature. "A Clockwork Orange" has also become an important image written into popular culture. This new version of "A Clockwork Orange" is based on the unabridged translation of the British version. The new translation restores a smooth reading experience. Sincerely included: the first edition of the typescript of "A Clockwork Orange" (including the writer's handwriting), the exclusive long article of the British 50th anniversary edition, more than 50 original annotations, and the writer's precious article reviewing the novel and film "A Clockwork Orange Marmalade".