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Marion König, International Sales Manager E-Publishing, Bastei Lübbe, spoke about the company's «Apocalypsis» project — a series of dystopian novels which the German publisher translated on its own into English and sold in a staggered release starting last fall.

Based on Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel which depicts a future where media is an opiate, history is outlawed and «firemen» burn books, Jordan portrays Montag, a young fireman who forsakes his world and struggles to regain his humanity as he battles his mentor, fire captain Beatty, played by Shannon.

Howey is the self - published author of Wool, a dystopian novel which has been the # 1 bestselling science fiction novel on Amazon.

Not exact matches

The book is beating out New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance,» which comes in at No. 2, as well as two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's horror classic, «It: A Novel.»

The social - media company isn't quite like the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty - Four, which works to change, correct, and falsify news and information to keep Big Brother in power.

It appears Shades of Grey, a beautifully written dystopian novel in which your caste is determined by which colors you can see, will be part of a series.

In 1985 Neil Postman published a book, «Amusing Ourselves to Death, «in which he argued that of the two great dystopian novels from the first half of the 20th century — Aldous Huxley's «Brave New World» and George Orwell's «1984» — it was actually the former, whose weapon of governmental control was distraction, rather than the latter, whose weapon was dictatorship, that was the more prescient and more deadly.

Set in a dystopian future in which the wealthy, decadent elites of the Capitol control the poor and starving districts of postapocalyptic Panem, aka America, Suzanne Collins» trilogy of young adult novels has at its core the resourceful, intelligent, and fierce femininity of Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence).

«Ready Player One,» which is based on the novel by author Ernest Cline, is a dystopian sci - fi tale about gamers competing for control of a virtual world.

Its sequel, the far superior «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,» rewrites the rules, which not only makes for a more exciting death match, but also yields a rich sociopolitical critique in the process, in keeping with the incendiary subtext of Suzanne Collins» dystopian novel.

It feels both divorced from and intrinsically tied to its source material, the 1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury, which is maybe inevitable when bringing a decades - old work to a contemporary audience.

Oh, now here's some very interesting news... Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley confirmed late in 2013 hat he would be directing an adaptation of JG Ballard's dystopian novel High Rise for producer Jeremy Thomas which, in itself, was...

Here, however, we're focused on dystopian novels in which crime and crime - solving are central to the action.

Now, with her second book, When She Woke, a dystopian novel set in America in a near - future in which the country has been taken in a very right - wing direction, about to hit the bookstores» shelves paired with its digital cousin, Jordan may be feeling that this progression has been very fast paced.

Who: Elisabeth Moss, Samira Wiley and Joseph Fiennes What: A 10 - episode series based on Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel about a near - future world in which women serve as concubines for the leaders of a fundamentalist state When: Premieres April 26 Where: Hulu Why We're Excited: After a trailer for the series aired during the Super Bowl, the 1985 novel rocketed to the top of the Amazon bestseller list.

Yesterday, author Gabrielle Zevin told us about her dystopian teen novel, All These Things I've Done — which underwent a makeover between the hardcover and paperback editions.

Koch began photographing for the Fundos series in 2001 while reading Paul Auster's dystopian novel, In the Country of Last Things, which tells the story of a collapsed society with no economy or industry, in which the population must resort to selling scavenged, nearly forgotten objects to survive.

Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's dystopian 1963 novel Cat's Cradle, which also takes place during «the end of the world», amidst Cold War paranoia, Andrea Williamson's piece draws from her own imagination, particularly fascinated by Vonnegut's description of a butterfly chair.

This 1967 novel is set in a dystopian future where resources are scarce, which leads society to implement a rule that requires everyone over the age of 21 to voluntarily end their lives.