Dystopian Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/genres/dystopian/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 19 Jan 2025 20:52:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Dystopian Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/genres/dystopian/ 32 32 38398750 All the Water in the World https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/all-the-water-in-the-world/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/all-the-water-in-the-world/#comments Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:38:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18918 The time has come. Thanks to climate change coastal cities are being abandoned for those further inland. In Manhattan, a small group of people has stayed behind, creating an encampment on top of the American Museum of Natural History in an effort to protect and document the treasure trove of man’s history it contains. Nonie […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/all-the-water-in-the-world/feed/ 2 18918 I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/i-cheerfully-refuse-by-leif-enger/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/i-cheerfully-refuse-by-leif-enger/#comments Tue, 14 May 2024 07:05:42 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18418 I’m once again fortunate enough to have a book find me and sweep me away despite my proclaimed inability to focus. It’s Leif Enger’s I Cheerfully Refuse an elegant novel of dystopia, mystery, and literary fiction. It’s a not-so-distant point in America’s future where climate change and political upheaval have erased all familiar landscapes, leaving […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/i-cheerfully-refuse-by-leif-enger/feed/ 4 18418 The Future by Naomi Alderman https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/the-future-by-naomi-alderman/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/the-future-by-naomi-alderman/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:55:30 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18154 The road to ruin is paved with certainty. The end of the world is only ever hastened by those who think they will be able to protect their own from the coming storm. From holiday horror to ending the year with dystopian apocalyptic science fiction? Why not! I decided to lean into everything that gives […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/the-future-by-naomi-alderman/feed/ 6 18154 The Light Pirate https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/the-light-pirate/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/the-light-pirate/#respond Mon, 02 Jan 2023 08:58:28 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17188 Frida’s baby isn’t due for another month, but as Wanda, a Cat 4 hurricane, bears down on the family’s home in a small Florida town she decides to make her entrance to the world. To mark the event Frida names her Wanda, hoping the storm’s power and strength will manifest in her daughter. What she […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/the-light-pirate/feed/ 0 17188 Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/our-missing-hearts-by-celeste-ng/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/our-missing-hearts-by-celeste-ng/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:26:15 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17057 What better time to review a novel set in an unspecified time in America’s not-too-distant future than the day before an election? Celeste Ng’s novel, Our Missing Hearts, could either be the way things should be or a dystopian hell, depending on your beliefs. I’ll leave it to you to suss out where I stand, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/our-missing-hearts-by-celeste-ng/feed/ 2 17057 The Displacements https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/the-displacements/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/the-displacements/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2022 07:07:51 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16982 In the late 70s, early 80s disaster books and movies were most often centered around manmade situations—The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, The China Syndrome, and Airport. It was man’s technical overreach that was going to take us down or at least had us worried. The latest crop of disaster novels is again looking at […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/the-displacements/feed/ 2 16982 Master Class by Christina Dalcher https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/05/master-class-by-christina-dalcher/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/05/master-class-by-christina-dalcher/#comments Fri, 22 May 2020 04:15:47 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14363 Christina Dalcher’s debut novel, Vox, established her as one of those writers who can layer present events onto the future and make it grim, but plausible. In the novel, separation of church and state disappear and one of the first acts of the new government is to restrict the number of words a woman can […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/05/master-class-by-christina-dalcher/feed/ 4 14363 The Road by Cormac McCarthy https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/03/the-road-by-cormac-mccarthy/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/03/the-road-by-cormac-mccarthy/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2020 05:52:13 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13933 You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget. A man and his young son are walking on a desolate road surrounded by burnt trees and ashes. In the distance fires still burn. They are headed…where? To safety would seem to be the answer, but in Cormac McCarthy’s The […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/recursion/feed/ 8 13537 The Testaments by Margaret Atwood https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/the-testaments-margaret-atwood/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/10/the-testaments-margaret-atwood/#comments Mon, 28 Oct 2019 07:42:54 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13304 It begins with the gathering up of the women. They are herded into what used to be a sports stadium and separated into groups. Based on what? Not race. Not age. No, profession. Doctors recognize fellow practitioners, teachers band together, lawyers huddle. They’re kept for days, even weeks. And then, the executions start. This is […]

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