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Post by hi224 on May 14, 2018 4:48:24 GMT
Anyone here?.
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on May 14, 2018 5:04:20 GMT
A Canticle for Leibowitz
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Post by hi224 on May 14, 2018 7:13:24 GMT
nice choice.
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 14, 2018 11:16:42 GMT
1984
I haven't read that many though.
A Clockwork Orange is the only other one I can think of. It was good too.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2018 23:31:48 GMT
I love the genre and there are some very good ones.
Orwell's 1984 is my favorite, endlessly engrossing, frightening, fascinating, a true masterpiece.
I also like Karp's One, which I think is the closest American equivalent to Orwell's 84.
I thought Ira Levin's This Perfect Day had some interesting parts, worth reading but disappointing compared to the glowing recommendations.
I didn't really care much for A Brave New World except the opening parts on genetics, which I always find interesting.
Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was fairly accurate in its depiction of future society becoming more dependent on technology and less on social interactions.
The Hunger Games was short and awful. I didn't bother with the rest in the series.
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin I think is underrated, very short, well worth reading.
Neuromancer by William Gibson is not the easiest read, sometimes hard to follow, dazzling prose and ideas.
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Post by mmexis on May 15, 2018 2:34:22 GMT
1984
Fahrenheit 41
The Handmaid's Tale
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Post by QueenB on May 15, 2018 4:19:02 GMT
The Handmaid's Tale and 1984
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Post by bess1971s on May 15, 2018 16:58:35 GMT
Swan Song by Robert MacCameron.
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Post by mrdanwest on May 15, 2018 20:03:34 GMT
Here are a bunch that have scored top marks with me:
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Zero K by Don DeLillo (A lot of DeLillo's novels feels dystopic, but this one probably fits best into the genre)
In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood (the first novel, Oryx and Crake, is particularly good)
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
1984 be George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders (a series of short stories taking place in the same dystopian future)
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (the narrative bounces around in time but segment of it take place in dystopic futures)
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
And here are a couple more that are high on my to read list and I should be getting to soon:
Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson
The Children of Men by P.D. James
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on May 15, 2018 21:59:41 GMT
I don't care for dystopian novels overall unless they lead back to a normal civilization
Brave New World
Hunger Games trilogy- It's a page turner which is pretty much what I ask for in a book.
I love the Mistborn series. I think I'm going to reread it. Sanderson is a world building maniac.
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Post by mmexis on May 16, 2018 2:04:17 GMT
I've read the children of men. It was very good.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on May 16, 2018 6:35:26 GMT
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
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Post by Bargle on May 16, 2018 10:38:12 GMT
The Tripod books by John Christopher, but there's a bunch I've liked.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on May 17, 2018 8:58:46 GMT
Other than 1984, the only one I remember reading is Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Windup Girl", which I quite liked.
*** Edit ***
I just saw that someone else listed "Ready Player One". I have also read and thoroughly enjoyed that one.
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Post by Morgana on May 18, 2018 14:55:48 GMT
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. What I like most about it is how palpable the love of the father for the son is, in the midst of such horror. |
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