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  • A cyberpunk fever-dream of climate catastrophe. It's in this grim near-future of 2272, where words such as "winter" and "cold" have no meaning, the Dengue Child grows.
    BookToronto, ON : Strange Light, 2025. — F NIEVA
  • Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dreams of earning enough money to afford citizenship in Salt Lake City--a utopia where the testosterone and surgery he needs to transition is…
    BookLondon, UK : Angry Robot, 2023. — SCIENCE FICTION F HESS
  • In a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods that lead to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called the Boots seizes the opportunity to force communities of colour, the disabled and the…
    Audiobook CDNew York : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2020] — TB F HERNA
  • The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all.…
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, [2023] — F KORN
  • Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives.
    BookNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2024] — F LEUNG
  • A piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored.
    BookNew York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — F GIDDI
  • A chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient, Future Home of the Living God is a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a…
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, [2017] — F ERDRI
  • Lyrical, satirical, and profound, The Immortal King Rao obliterates genre to confront the digital age. This gripping, brilliant debut poses an urgent question: can anyone–peasant labourers, convention-destroying entrepreneurs, radical…
    BookNew York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022] — F VARA