The Book: The Running Man, by Richard Bachman/Stephen King
The Story: The year is 2025 and everything is kind of in shambles. Ben Richards’ young daughter has come down with the flu and because they can’t afford to take her to the doctor, it is just getting worse and worse. America is pretty much obsessed with [...]
The Book: The World Made By Hand, by James Howard Kunstler
The Story: This book takes place in the not-so-distant future, maybe 30 years or so. There have been wars and a couple flu pandemics and things have fallen apart. Electricity is gone and there’s no cars or trucks. Communication has fizzled to nothing. Pretty much, [...]
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Nothing gets me quite like a good dystopian book. I love them. The Giver was, I’m sure, the first book that I read that was set in another version of the future, and I was in love with it.
The thing that Lois Lowry did perfectly was give us just enough information [...]