Books like Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller

After a catastrophic pandemic, former actress Kirsten Raymonde joins a traveling troupe that performs Shakespeare for scattered communities, only to confront a ruthless prophet in a desperate quest for survival.

Red Mars chronicles the early days of humanity’s colonization and political upheaval on Mars, blending environmental engineering, terraforming and nation‑building in a hard‑science vision.

In a future where corporations weaponize genetic engineering, Paolo Bacigalupi’s *The Windup Girl* explores the ethical and societal consequences of bioterrorism and gene hacking.

Flynne, a young woman living in a drug‑reliant city, helps her veteran brother Burton test a new virtual reality game. When the beta test turns into a murder investigation, she discovers a deadly conspiracy that threatens her life.

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Set in the year 2140, New York City has been transformed into a city of canals and islands as rising sea levels inundate the skyline, yet life continues in a familiar, yet altered, bustling metropolis.

Set in 2144, "Autonomous" follows drug‑pirate Jack, an anti‑patent scientist who smuggles affordable pharmaceuticals to the poor, while military agent Eliasz and his robotic partner Paladin hunt her to expose a sinister conspiracy.

On the starship Dormire, clones of a murdered crew awaken in vats, each fearing the next bloodshed—but a new clone with no memory of her death must uncover the killer before another murder takes place.

In 1890s England, an insomniac falls into a two‑hundred‑year sleep, only to awaken as the wealthiest and most powerful man on Earth, confronting a dystopian society built on his forgotten investments.

Louise Erdrich’s novel follows Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who returns to her Ojibwe roots just as society begins to unravel amid apocalyptic panic.

During New England’s four‑month hibernation, Winter Consul Charlie Worthing investigates viral dreams that begin to kill and then manifest reality, all while evading Nightwalkers, murder‑hungry villains, and the enigmatic WinterVolk.

An American travel writer crosses into a mysterious Eastern European country, only to find himself trapped by both corrupt bureaucracy and unseen supernatural forces.

The Wall follows British guard Kavanagh as he patrols a massive sea‑fenced barrier protecting the UK from climate‑displaced refugees, exploring duty, sacrifice and the thin line between security and freedom.

Thirty years ago a superhero tried to save Chicago. Now the city is again under siege. Somewhere in Chicago, a roomful of people have been taken hostage. The hostages will be killed one by one, the masked gunman says on-screen, unless the police will admit that they faked the death of the legendary black superhero called the Kingfisher and helped him to give up his defense of the city thirty years ago. Retired reporter Marcus Waters made his name as a journalist covering the enigmatic superhero’s five years of cleaning up Chicago’s streets. Then the Kingfisher died, Chicago resumed its violent turmoil, and Marcus slid back into obscurity. But did the Kingfisher really die? And who would take hostages connected to the Kingfisher's past attempts to clean up the streets? With the help of disgraced police officer Lucinda Tillman and a young hacktivist named Wren, Marcus will explore the city's violence, corruption, and chaos to figure out if the vigilante hero died tragically, or gave up hope and abandoned the city—and for the hostages, the clock is ticking.

In the sprawling City Unspoken, death is a cycle of rebirth across countless worlds; one New Yorker, Cooper, awakens amid dying aristocrats, gods, and a failing portal to True Death.

Kyri, the last hope of her ruined homeland Evanwyl, embarks on a perilous quest across the world of Zarathan to stop a looming Chaos War, aided by the swordsman Tobimar Silverun and the diminutive hero Poplock Duckweed.

Lena, a former student activist living on an unnamed island nation ten years after a brutal regime’s fall, suspects a powerful senator—a man she once dated—of murder, yet she remains silent due to her family's past and lack of proof.

After London floods, a mother and her infant navigate a dystopian landscape, moving north to find safety while the child grows against all odds.

In 2053, serious climate change forces a father to search relentlessly for his kidnapped daughter, navigating a world where every step could bring danger or hope.