Sci fi/dystopian fiction recommendations

[Heavenscent86]

So as the title says can anyone recommend me some really good Sci fi or dystopian books to read?

[Tokelau]

I loved Brave New World. Couldn't put it down.

[MrsFlorrick]

Second Brave New World. Re-read many times. Fantastic book

The Road by Kevin McCormac. Gripping and scary.

And lurking for other suggestions.

[ShootTheMoon]

I kept the link to an old thread about this as there were some good suggestions - post-apocalyptic reads .

I am reading Hugh Howey's books (Wool series, and Sand); they are interesting whizz along reads, and enjoyable, though not as moving as Never Let Me Go or The Handmaid's Tale or Oryx and Crake etc,

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

The Stand
World War Z
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Fahrenheit 451
On the Beach (this one is here to annoy Cote - so let's see if she notices! Shhhh)
Zombie trash but fan = Mira Grant
The Passage

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

The Running Man
The Long Walk

[Heavenscent86]

Some great recommendations here thank you and keep them coming That old thread is brilliant ShootTheMoon. I particularly like the sound of The Strain. Anyone read it?

[WhoTheFuckIsSimon]

The Passage is amazing.
The Last Survivors is good and free on kindle at the minute.

[slightlyglitterbrained]

The Changes Trilogy Peter Dickinson (Britain in a future where for some reason that becomes apparent during the first book, Britain has reverted to the middle ages in terms of technology - having an engine in your shed will get you burnt as a witch)

Pretty much all of Maureen McHugh's books are set in (different) dystopian futures. China Mountain Zhang (future where China is the dominant world power), Nekropolis, Half the Day is Night.

[NotNob]

The Handmaids Tale - M Attwood

[mupperoon]

Riddley Walker by Russel Hoban. It's written in a future dialect of English which might put some off, but it's so beautiful and sad and scary.

[LettuceLaughton]

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

[RhuBarbarella]

In the country of last things by Paul Auster.

[Sirona]

My favourite genre.

Brave new world is also one of my favourites.

Off the top of my head and I'm sure there's loads I can't remember;

Obviously 1984
The Handmaids Tale
The Road
Children of the Dust
I am Legend
The circle

[Sirona]

Oh and I loved Cloud Atlas but know it's a bit of a marmite book

[Sadik]

I love SF - some space-opera type stuff, but also near-future-what-if type books Some of my favourite recent reads:

Ancillary Justice + sequels by Ann Leckie (traditional AI/spaceships/adventure)
Gemsigns + sequels by Stephanie Saulter (future earth, genetically modified humans)
Dark Star by Oliver Langmead (Genuinely different - 30s noir style set on a planet with no visible light written in blank verse - fantastic and should be read much more widely IMO)
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (time travel though not exactly SF, I think)
Europe in Autumn - sort-of post apocalyptic, in a not-that-apocalyptic way, very good setting with Europe fractured into large numbers of mini-states.

[Neffi]

Station Eleven

[ShootTheMoon]

mupperoon ; a fellow Riddley Walker fan! Hello . I wrote a thesis on Riddley Walker and Cloud Atlas, back in the day.

[CosmicOwl]

Three I've enjoyed recently:

The Girl With All The Gifts, M. R. Carey (Loved this)

Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel

Dark Eden, Chris Beckett

[CosmicOwl]

Sadik, I'm halfway through The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August at the moment, haven't quite made my mind up about it yet, enjoying it but finding it a little hard going in places.

[bruffin]

Anything by John Christopher or John Wyndham

[NancyDroop]

Ender's Game & other Orson Scott Card

The Martian (book much better than the movie, same for E's G)

We - dystopian Russian novel

[Sadik]

I really enjoyed it, Cosmic - but I'd previously just read Dark Intelligence by Neal Asher which was a real concentrate-hard-or-you're-utterly-lost affair

[CosmicOwl]

Admittedly I'm a very lazy reader, think I'll give Dark Intelligence a miss!