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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
538 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia--where the truth isn't what it seems. Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"--
4) Perfect ruin
Author
Series
Internment chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First Simon & Schuster paperback edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives in Internment, a floating city utopia. But when a murder occurs, everything she knows starts to unravel.
5) Messenger
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After losing her child and seeing the world as an increasingly dangerous place, a young Black woman from Boston decides to construct a separate society at an abandoned restaurant in Western Massachusetts. She locates a benefactor and soon it all begins to take shape, but it doesn't take long for problems to develop"--
7) The republic
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cambridge texts in the history of political thought. Edited by G. R. F. Ferrari. Translated by Tom Griffith.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mori and her friends set out to seek help for Ilana from Dr. Varden, one of the founders of Old Harmonie, but meeting Outsiders gives them a new perspective on their utopian community.
10) Holy terror
Author
Publisher
Simon
Pub. Date
1939
Physical Desc
454 p.
Language
English
Description
Rise and fall of an English dictator.
11) Men like gods
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1923
Physical Desc
327 p.
Language
English
Description
Barnstaple, a burnt out journalist, decides to go on holiday and leave the rat race behind. He leaves his family at home and hits the road. His car along with several others are miraculous transported 3,000 years into an alternate future. The world he lands in, a veritable utopia, has a history very much like his own but for small details. Mankind has left behind its governments and religions for good or ill. Each person lives a life of their own...
12) Surrogates
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates - sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.