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.
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.
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Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy
PanThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is officially one of the funniest books ever written. -
Oryx and Crake
ViragoPigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. -
Fahrenheit 451
Collins VoyagerThe hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. -
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
GollanczWorld 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. -
Flowers For Algernon
GollanczCharlie 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. -
Gun, with Occasional Music
Faber and FaberA science-fiction mystery, a dark and funny post-modern romp serving further evidence that Lethem is the distinctive voice of a new generation. -
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Walker BooksThe 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. -
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Penguin BooksHidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. -
Slaughterhouse 5
VintagePrisoner 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. -
The War of the Worlds
PenguinThe whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path. -
Ambient
Grove, AtlanticIn 21st century Manhattan, a good portion of the citizenry consists of freaks engendered by a nuclear accident on Long Island.






