dystopia Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/dystopia/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 24 Aug 2025 01:16:49 +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 dystopia Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/dystopia/ 32 32 38398750 The Compound by Aisling Rawle https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/08/the-compound-by-aisling-rawle/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/08/the-compound-by-aisling-rawle/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 07:08:06 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19278 The premise of Aisling Rawle’s The Compound is straightforward: a reality competition show where 20 young, healthy, beautiful strangers are dropped into an estate located in the middle of a desert. They have tasks to complete and will receive rewards for completing them. Some are communal, meaning everyone must participate, and others are personal. The […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/08/the-compound-by-aisling-rawle/feed/ 0 19278 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 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 In the Lives of Puppets https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/in-the-lives-of-puppets/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/in-the-lives-of-puppets/#respond Thu, 22 Jun 2023 07:53:01 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17668 They gave us life, and eventually, the power of decision-making. We were rational creations, not guided by emotion. Our jobs were simple: to do what we were told when we were told to do it. But with their teachings came a price they did not expect: we began to ask why? A father, son, and […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/in-the-lives-of-puppets/feed/ 0 17668 February Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/february-reading-wrap-up-6/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/february-reading-wrap-up-6/#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:12:30 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17325 February was a month of extremes. I either held onto a book for dear life or dropped it like a bad habit. There was no middle ground. Thankfully, the majority of what I read was outstanding with 6 of the 11 novels I read being 4 stars or higher. DNFs are painful, but that disappointment […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/february-reading-wrap-up-6/feed/ 10 17325 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 June Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:08:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16806 June. What a month. Normally, this is a recap of my reading, but no matter how I try to stick to the subject of books my brain refuses to cooperate. By this time next week we’ll be starting the 2,200 mile trip from Ann Arbor to Seattle. The unending list of what needs to be […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/feed/ 4 16806 January Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/january-reading-wrap-up-5/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/january-reading-wrap-up-5/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2022 05:07:21 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16452 What to say about January? A month that went so fast, but didn’t seem to move at all. With subzero temperatures and a broken supply chain that left Costco with no Diet Coke (I can go without my meds, but no Diet Coke is a bridge too far). Those are the lows, but the important […]

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