by Emily St. John Mandel (2014)
Twenty years after a devastating pandemic collapses global civilization, a nomadic troupe of actors and musicians called The Traveling Symphony roams the settlements of the Great Lakes performing Shakespeare.
Cormac McCarthy
A father and his young son walk alone through burned America toward the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind, sustained solely by their love for one another and the imperative to carry the fire.
Margaret Atwood
In the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that has overthrown the United States government, women are stripped of all rights, and the few remaining fertile females are forced into sexual servitude as Handmaids.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
A race for survival among the stars that spans millennia. On a terraformed planet, a nanovirus designed to uplift monkeys accidentally accelerates the evolution of spiders instead. When a dying generation ship carrying the last remnants of human civilization arrives, two drastically different evolutionary paths collide.
Ursula K. Le Guin
A human envoy is sent to the icy world of Gethen with the mission of facilitating its inclusion in a growing intergalactic confederation. But Gethen is unlike any world he has ever known: its inhabitants are ambisexual, possessing no fixed gender. To survive political scheming, Genly must make an impossible trek across the Karhide glacier with a disgraced politician.