Dystopian and post-apocalyptic

13 books

2 B R 0 2 BKurt Vonnegut · 1962A satirical science fiction short story, first published in 1962, set in a future America where aging and disease have been conquered and strict population control requires anyone wishing to have a child to find volunteers willing to die. A new father of triplets faces this law's consequences.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

A Pail of AirFritz Leiber · 1951A science fiction short story from 1951 in which a boy and his family survive in a sealed shelter on a frozen, airless Earth after a dark star pulls the planet from the Sun, until a mysterious light appears outside their home.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

AnthemAyn Rand · 1938A dystopian novella told as the secret journal of Equality 7-2521, a young man in a collectivist future society where individuality is forbidden. Writing alone is a crime, and he records his forbidden thoughts and desires in a hidden tunnel.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Doomsday EveRobert Moore Williams · 1957A 1957 science fiction novel in which mysterious superhuman beings called the "new people" appear during a devastating future war. American intelligence officer Kurt Zen must uncover the source of their powers before the enemy launches a doomsday bomb.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Greener Than You ThinkWard Moore · 1947A 1947 satirical science fiction novel told by Albert Weener, a salesman who becomes involved with an eccentric inventor whose plant-transforming compound, the Metamorphizer, is applied to lawns with far-reaching and fantastic consequences over the following twenty-one years.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Null-ABCH. Beam Piper · 1953This 1953 science fiction novel, serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, imagines a future society where reading has been abolished and literacy is controlled by a powerful fraternal order. It follows a businessman and senator whose family becomes entangled in the conflict over whether book-learning should return.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Second VarietyPhilip K. Dick · 1953A 1953 science fiction novelette in which soldiers in a future war face self-replicating killer robots that have begun imitating humans, as a major ventures into enemy territory to investigate a Russian offer to negotiate peace.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The KeeperH. Beam Piper · 1957A 1957 science fiction short story in which Raud, a fur trapper guarding a mysterious treasure called the Crown, sets out with his rifle and two great dogs to track down the armed thieves who stole it before they can reach the Starfolk.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Marching MoronsC. M. Kornbluth · 1951This 1951 science fiction short story by C. M. Kornbluth depicts a future society of low-intelligence people, where a few capable individuals secretly manage civilization. A revived man from the past is brought into this world.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Rat RaceJay Franklin · 1947A 1947 science fiction novel in which naval officer Frank Jacklin, killed in an atomic explosion aboard his ship, wakes in the body of dissolute stockbroker Winnie Tompkins. His foreknowledge of the disaster draws him into intrigue, romance, and politics in wartime New York and Washington.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The ReturnH. Beam Piper · 1954A science fiction novella by H. Beam Piper, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1954. Two explorers fly a helicopter over a post-nuclear-war America, searching a ruined Pittsburgh for a cache of books and finding an isolated group of survivors with a strange but logical religion.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Status CivilizationRobert Sheckley · 1960A 1960 science fiction novel by Robert Sheckley about an amnesiac man imprisoned on Omega, a prison planet for criminals deported from Earth, where new arrivals must survive deadly rituals while trying to learn who they were and what they did.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

This Crowded EarthRobert Bloch · 1958A 1958 science fiction novel by Robert Bloch, serialized in Amazing Stories, following Harry Collins through a near-future America from 1997 to 2065, where overcrowded cities, strict housing laws, and mass transit crush individual citizens.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية