 | The Giver by Lois Lowry
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.29 Classic.
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: $10.37 / Used from: $4.83 Need I say more?
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 | V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.06 This could be the movie version of 1984. Awesome!
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 | Anthem (Centennial Edition) by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.18 A story of one man's attempts to attain individuality.
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 | City of Ember
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $1.99 The Giver and Anthem plus a bit of post-apocalyptic life...but for kids. People are forced underground after a terrible event, their rulers become corrupt and they are running out of supplies. They have to find a way out.
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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 | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 If you could be a book, which would you be? A totalitarian state where books are outlawed.
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 | Animal Farm (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 A high school classic.
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 | William Golding's Lord of the Flies (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $28.00 A fictional look at the baseness of human nature when soceity is stripped away.
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 | The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Buy used from: $7.00 A future where sex is controlled.
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 | We the Living by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.50 Life in a real totalitarian state.
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 | I, Robot (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $0.99 Robots as helpers and servants...until they take over.
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 | The Ultimate Matrix Collection (The Matrix/ The Matrix Reloaded/ The Matrix Revolutions/ The Animatrix)
Buy used from: $22.39 Future where robots rule and your life only exists in your head.
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 | Blade Runner - The Final Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $2.94 Super pointless yet visually cool. Future where robots are so lifelike that they are banned on earth.
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 | Minority Report (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.56 A future where you are charged with crimes before you even commit them. This was definetly influenced by Asimov's "All the Troubles in the World."
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 | All the Troubles of the World (Creative Classic) by Isaac Asimov
Buy used from: $4.50 I read this in middle school and it made such an impression that I spent about a decade trying to figure out what it was called. A super computer knows everything about everyone and can predict their future behavior, including any crimes. But it gets so depressed hearing everyone's problems that it hatches a plot to have itself murdered.
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 | Aeon Flux (Special Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $0.49 Disease wiped out almost all life. Those who remain live in a totalitarian state run by the descendants of the person who found the cure to the disease. Some may disagree, but this is better than the cartoon.
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 | The Stand
Buy used from: $17.50 Creeps you out, but worth the watch. Big disease. Wipes out all life. Those who remain go to Boulder, CO of all places.
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 | 12 Monkeys (Special Edition)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $2.10 This is the kind of circular cause and effec that must irritate physicists when they watch them. You see life before, kind of during, and after a mysterious disease has apparently done something bad on the earth.
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 | I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Buy used from: $7.46 Big disease turns everyone into a vampire, except one person who is now the outsider.
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 | Red Dawn
Buy used from: $1.99 Post-communist take-over, but the same overall idea.
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 | The Thirteenth Floor
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $2.00 Who knows. Could happen. Your life could all just be a
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 | Endgame and Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett
Buy new: $8.58 / Used from: $0.01 Pretentious English major book that takes place in a post-atomic, nuclear winter.
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| This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
Buy used from: $19.95 I haven't read this but it seems in keeping with the theme.
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 | Dark City (New Line Platinum Series)
Buy used from: $0.87 Mind freak.
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