Science fiction/dystopian booklist

Space... the final frontier.

These are the booklists of the starship Booktrust. It's mission: to inspire a love of books; to seek out the best sci-fi and dystopia books and to boldly recommend titles that no one has done before!

Boldly going where no Booktrust booklist has gone before... discover dystopian worlds and intergalatic space in our sci-fi booklist.

Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

Pan

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is officially one of the funniest books ever written.

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The Handmaid’s Tale

by Margaret Atwood

Vintage

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed.

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Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood

Virago

Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons.

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Feersum Endjinn

by Iain M Banks

Orbit

Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time...

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Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

Collins Voyager

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K Dick

Gollancz

World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey.

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Flowers For Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

Gollancz

Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius.

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Gun, with Occasional Music

by Jonathan Lethem

Faber and Faber

A science-fiction mystery, a dark and funny post-modern romp serving further evidence that Lethem is the distinctive voice of a new generation.

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The Knife of Never Letting Go

by Patrick Ness

Walker Books

The first in a series, this enthralling sci-fi/fantasy novel grips readers throughout, presenting them with tough questions about identity, ethics and the nature of truth.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

Penguin Books

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party.

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Slaughterhouse 5

by Kurt Vonnegut

Vintage

Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse.

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The War of the Worlds

by H G Wells

Penguin

The whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path.

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Ambient

by Jack Womack

Grove, Atlantic

In 21st century Manhattan, a good portion of the citizenry consists of freaks engendered by a nuclear accident on Long Island.

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