Dystopias

[Stewart]

The Slynx, Tatyana Tolstoya

 

[FourTonMantis]

Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick.
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (it counts right?)

 

[joderu95]

We, Yevgeny Zamyatin

Here's a second for that one. It's kind of a combination of 1984 and Brave New World before either existed. Try The World Inside by Robert Silverberg too.

 

[Stewart]

Another one, bizarrely not mentioned, and which I finished last night: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

 

[ink-heart]

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (it counts right?)

Aah! I just remembered that too (having heard of it; I only know the movie 'Blade Runner' so far) and now it's one of the next books on my mount to be read. The title is marvellous, isn't it? I'm really looking forward to reading this one.

I must admit I feel really challenged by all your suggestions. Just looking them up on the internet takes so much time that I don't get around to reading. I think you can see that I hugely enjoy this.

 

[Stewart]

Discovered another while out for lunch earlier. The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger.

 

[LugNuts]

Two that I've just recently read for class:

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Both are dystopia.

 

[mr_michel]

would you guys say, that Dr. Zhivago, its a Dystopia?

 

[Champagne]

Not really. It seemed to be set pretty much in the real world.

 

[Disenthral]

Might be a bit off topic but my friends have a band called DYSTOPIA and it pretty much is dystopia.. makes you want to curl up in a ball afterwards and die..


its great!!

depressing music?? who knew it could be awesomely fantastic

 

[Heteronym]

would you guys say, that Dr. Zhivago, its a Dystopia?

I can see the argument in favor, but it's more a tale of disenchantment with a real ideology which aspired to create utopia on Earth and failed. For my part, and I realise how narrow minded I'm being, dystopic fiction should operate on an allegoric level

 

[silverseason]

And how about The First Circle, our current book of the month? It is certainly a dystopia if it is an expression of the rationale of dialectical materialism carried to extremes. As one of the characters explains, any injustice they are suffering is a result of the inevitability of the historical process.

 

[Stewart]

I can give you another dystopia, now that I've read it: Metropole, by Ferenc Karinthy.

 

[arnuld]

Eh... none mentioned A Scanner Darkly . Not that much of dystopia. Should I call it a near future dystopia

 

[tartan_skirt]

Lanark Alasdair Gray
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
The Guardians John Christopher
Plus I hear V for Vendetta has a novelization out now which is based on the film, based on the original graphic novel.

Dystopia is one of those genres I always mean to go back to and read/study in greater depth.

 

[liv]

This is so interesting to me, as the novel I'm currently working on has a dystopian setting. I just wanted to put in my two cents that Brave New World is definitely my favorite dystopian work, and if you want to check it out, there are a LOT of great dystopian films, such as Equilibrium. But you really can't go wrong with the classic novels. There are obvious reasons why they are classics.

 

[Heteronym]

I have two more titles to recommend:

Alfred Kubin's The Other Side, in which an artist visits a man-made nightmare world.

Roberto Arlt's The Seven Madmen: now this isn't really a dystopia, but it's about a bunch of lunatics attempting to build one. Isn't that even better?