Dystopian Fiction

[BirdUp]

i haven't really read any dystopian fiction apart from 1984 so id like to hear what you think is good

 

[Vash the Stampede]

Metro 2033 is pretty good, but I'm not sure if that qualifies as dystopian since it's essentially just 'living in Russia'

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Xeelee Sequence

 

[Easterling]

Brave new world by Aldous Huxley

 

[Twinkletard]

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

 

[pork and beans]

Since you read 1984 I urge you to read the 1920 novel Us by Zamiatin. Orwell and Huxley were both inspired by it and it's really good.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

Brave new world by Aldous Huxley

I second this.

Huxley thought people could be controlled by pleasure rather than by fear, as Orwell thought. Looking at today, he was almost prophetic.

 

[Whatevermancer]

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner.

 

[paperwork]

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith

 

[sophnar0747]

Since you read 1984 I urge you to read the 1920 novel Us by Zamiatin. Orwell and Huxley were both inspired by it and it's really good.

Just read that a month or so ago, it's very good. As a person who mostly keeps to myself and is quite the homebody, the city of glass stuff is deeply uncomfortable.

 

[GrammaNazi]

If we can expand beyond literature, I can recommend some films. THX-1138, Logan's Run, Brazil. and Soylent Green. THX-1138 is a future run by AI and the population is kept in a docile & productive state. No emotion, no thinking, only work. Logan's Run is also an AI run society, but all your wants and desires are provided. Everyone is happy, and no one gets old as the population is limited by "suiciding" anyone over 30. Brazil is a future of over developed technology & bureaucracy to the point where humanity is lost under a sea of policy and procedures. Soylent Green is an over-populated world with dwindling resources and is based on the novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison. Incidentally, Harrison's series about Bill the Intergalactic Hero were some of my favorite sci-fi comedies akin to the Hitchhiker's series.

I'll also post the txt files of both 1984 and Brave New World, for anyone that wishes to read them. I saved them a few decades ago from websites, so please excuse any html code in them.

 

[Flaming Carrot]

Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Brave new world by Aldous Huxley

My favourite argument about the book is arguing why it's dystopic compared to regular society. Like it feels wrong for a lot of social and generic engineering, but pretty much everyone is happy and the people dissatisfied are put in a resort with like minded people so they won't feel excluded.