Dystopian and post-apocalyptic

8 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

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 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