“Cloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re here, you’ll never want to leave.” The world is dominated by Cloud, a retail conglomerate that controls everything — your home, union, healthcare, government… it’s all Cloud. Essentially, it’s the Amazon of the next decade. That’s what makes it so …
An anti-capitalist zombie narrative / coming-of-age that highlights the immigrant experience and the bleakness of the “millennial condition.” You’ve never read a dystopian like this. It’s moving, horrific, and humorous. –Kathryn, Browsers Bookshop, Olympia, WA Bring home something unexpected from a visit to Browsers Bookshop and other independent bookstores.
This extraordinary mash-up of novel and graphic novel (pages of text alternate with pictures) depicts an alternate early 21st century America ravaged by drone-fought war, in which the surviving populace spend most of their time languidly plugged into a massive virtual reality network. Our off-grid heroine and her robot companion are on a mission, the …
Dawn is complex, deeply compelling, and endlessly thought-provoking in its meditations on what it means to be human, who gets to be considered human, and what’s at stake in these categorical distinctions. Set in a dystopian future, Dawn’s chilling, unsettling narrative reminds us how the words we use and distinctions we make so urgently matter …
In Zumas’s all-too-familiar dystopia set in a small Oregon coastal town, Roe v. Wade has been overturned. The narrative explores the complexity of childbearing — both the desire for and not for — and the reduction of a woman’s identity to such choices, braiding together the perspectives of a pregnant teen, a single teacher who …
By Special to The Oregonian Posted Jan 30 By Jenn Director Knudsen | For The Oregonian/OregonLive The Willamette Valley town of Independence is home to a small book-publishing company whose mindset reflects its town’s name. Not a Pipe Publishing, founded in 2013 and co-owned by spouses Benjamin and Paige Gorman, appears to be the sole U.S. publisher that …
I’ve had ideas for new posts rattling around in my brain for months, but, to be perfectly honest, I just haven’t had the mental or emotional energy to get the words down. It started with the election or, really, with the campaign. It was just so dispiriting and disheartening and now it feels like it’s …
VanderMeer brings us another creepy, apocalyptic novel with a twist. The whole world is beat, stricken, and frail, overrun by monsters created by a biotech firm called the Company. Rachel and Wick, human survivors, must scratch out a life as the human race has been depleted and some people have morphed into inhuman creatures. While …
Today is the on-sale date for the debut dystopian novel American War. Publisher Penguin Random House asked the author, Portland resident Omar Al Akkad, about the book. For the full interview, visit the publisher’s page. The author has an event at Powell’s in Portland on Friday, April 7 at 7:30. Q: When did you begin working …
“A very fine dystopian novel of the most delicious kind, where reality is shrouded in mysticism but within a few pages you find yourself embedded in that world, and as the pages turn you find yourself doubting less and believing more.” –Susan Richmond, Inklings Bookshop, Yakima, WA Start believing with a copy from Inklings or …
