The Time Machine
Presents H. G. Wells's science fiction classic "The Time Machine" and includes explanatory notes, an outline of plots and themes, critical analysis, a Wells chronology, discussion questions, and other study tools.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 85
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1070
subjects: time travel, scientists, science fiction, london (england) [X], space and time, extraterrestrial beings, fourth dimension, voyages, imaginary, imaginary voyages, sci fi, comic books, strips, etc, science fiction, dystopias [X], dystopias
1984
In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 249
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1090
subjects: crime and fantasy, orwell, george, fiction, english literature, science fiction, totalitarianism, culture conflict, london (england) [X], dystopias [X], spanish language, audiobooks, audiobooks, science fiction, dystopian fiction, compact discs, electronic books, electronic books, political fiction, ukrainian language
Scrivener's Moon
When she returns home after two years, Fever finds that her Scriven mother's creation, New London--the city on wheels--is nearly complete and ready to fight the nomad tribes of Britain, and Fever must journey to the north to find the ancient birthplace of the Scriven mutants and solve the mystery of her own past.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970
subjects: technology, mutation (biology), identity (psychology), dystopias [X], london (england) [X], england, variation (biology), individuality, dystopian fiction, science fiction
Nineteen Eighty-four
Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the future political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the totalitarian regime that controls all human thought and action.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 32
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: totalitarianism, science fiction, dystopias [X], london (england) [X], science, political fiction, political fiction, science fiction, dystopias
Bloodtide
Two ruthless gangs of warlords fight over the bombed-out remains of the city of London, until a truce is suggested by the patriarch of the Volson clan, who offers his fourteen-year-old daughter's hand to his blood rival.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: arranged marriage, teenagers, marriage, london (england) [X], dystopias [X], gangs, young women, armistices
Bloodsong
As the only remaining member of the Volson clan, fifteen-year-old Sigurd takes a sword forged from a knife given to his father by the god Odin and embarks on a mission to reunite his country.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: man-woman relationships, man-woman relationship, dystopias [X], adventure fiction, fantasy fiction, london (england) [X]
Everland
London is a ruin, destroyed by German bombs, ravaged by the Horologia virus, and ruled by the ruthless Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer, whose Marauders search for and seize the children who are immune to the virus in the hope that their blood will produce a cure--their latest victim is sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling's younger sister and Gwen will do anything to get her back, even join up with Pete and his gang of Lost Boys living in a city hidden underground.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: adventure stories, hiding places, immunity, virus diseases, dystopias [X], london (england) [X], england, orphans, survival, characters in literature, adventure and adventurers
1984
Presents a graphic novel of George Orwell's '1984' in which Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the future political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the Party that controls all human thought and action.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: totalitarianism, dystopias [X], dystopian fiction, london (england) [X], political comics, dystopian comics, comics adaptations, graphic novels
The Wonderland Trials
"All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her Normal life in Oxford and find the parents who abandoned her ten years ago.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: wonderland (imaginary place), contests, problem solving, adopted children, magic, friendship, dystopias [X], fantasy, london (england) [X], fantasy fiction, dystopian fiction