In his story of downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality, George Orwell gave us one of the most scathing satiric fables every written. As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, Animal Farm is a parable about would-be liberators everywhere. As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals through the lens of our own history, we...

In a new America where girls are raised to be brides and auctioned off to the highest bidder, Mia refuses to succumb to this life and, along with two friends, makes a run for it to Mexico where a free--if uncertain--future awaits.

"Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television ٢family.٣ But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a...

After a cataclysmic world war, 2092 finds a megacorporation controlling the planet. Anti-technology Luddites are rising up, and military officers are plotting a revolution.

Set in a futurist totalitarian England, a country without freedom or faith, a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask strikes back against the oppressive overlords on behalf of the voiceless. Armed with only knives and his wits, V, as he's called, aims to bring about change in this horrific new world. His only ally? A young woman named Evey Hammond. And she is in for much more than she ever bargained for. A visionary graphic novel that defines sophisticated...

"Humanity is controlled by Marsco, a megacorporation whose authoritarian regime extends past Earth into the planet's growing space colonies. All computer access, most space travel and commerce fall under Marsco's control. After the events of The Marsco Dissident, the corporation's enemies and allies have regrouped to consider their options. For Martin Herriff, the relative calm offers an opportunity to complete work on the first interstellar spaceship-a...

"Whoever controls our memories controls the future. Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts-as a means of self-conception-could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life and...

Presents two of the author's classic stories, "Animal Farm," in which animals create their own Animals' Republic, and "1984," in which a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.

"The Marsco Sustainability Project continues The Marsco Saga. Fifty years have passed since the escape ship, the Sirius Odyssey II, secretly left Earth's solar system heading for a distant, habitable planet. During a routine check of her crew in cryogenic stasis, Zot Grizotti, the ship's hiberman, discovers that Sirius has been reprogrammed to head back to Earth. Tessa Miller, Mei-Ling Shanghai, and Zot now face returning to the Marsco world, a world...