Dystopian future novels

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban is outstanding.

Less frequently mentioned YA dystopias :

The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Pure Series by Julianna Baggott

I read YA dystopian fiction but would recommend:

unwind series - YA but quite grown up. I really enjoyed the four books, haven't read everything on here so don't know if you've already been recommended them but they are great.

Flawed - Cecilia Aherne. Found this quite descriptive and shocking at times.

Delirium trilogy - very YA but good nonetheless. Love is a disease you are cured of at 16.

I love dystopian fiction but had to take a break as my outlook was getting bleaker lol.

"Dystopian i guess in the sense that it's a vision of the future?"

That's not what Dystopian means, though.

Most sci-fi or speculative fiction is "a vision of the future".

apocalypse/ post apoc...

Exit Kingdoms by Alden Bell

Swan Song by Robert McCammon quite like The Stand

Ya but I quite liked the declaration trilogy.

Dystopian i guess in the sense that it's a vision of the future?

Why did you think Never Let Me Go is an alternate present story? I'm curious.

I thought it was clearly set in a near future.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in an alternative present and truly disturbing.

I wouldn't call WWZ dystopian. Apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic, but not dystopian.

Had to check that they weren't mentioned first

World War Z (very, very good, film apparently only uses the title and otherwise different story, I fumed when I found out)

Genus by Jonathan Trigell - world of designer babies, suddenly the richest in society are also the most beautiful, talented....

The End Specialist by Drew Magary.

A cure is found for the aging process. Happy Days. Except No. Unhappy days. It was brilliant, actually.

Oh! I forgot! Also try Uglies Series by Scott Westerfield (Uglies/Pretties/Specials/Extras) aimed at YA audience but I read them when I was in my early 20's working in New York and they were just brilliant. I stayed up all night and read the 1st one in a single sitting and then literally ran to the book store the next morning to get the others!

Sheri Tepper is a great writer of fantasy, I love Beauty.

For books offering Dystopian/Utopian futures try Marge Piercy Woman on the Edge of Time and Starhawk's Fifth Sacred Thing and City of Refuge.

Very good at making as look at choices we make now and the impact on the Earth and future generations.

If you want something with an Alternative History aspect then try the Bone Season and Mime Order by Samantha Shannon - absolutely can't wait for the next in the series!

The News Flesh Series and Parasitology Series both by Mira Grant are brilliant!

The Circle by Dave Eggers is good

And also although it's a bit more fantasy but I'd also recommend The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Saunders

Plus another vote for Red Rising Series

I've missed this! Cronin's last book in the trilogy has been released? Well about fecking time!

I'll have to re-read the first two now.

I second the Wool, Sand & Dust trilogy.

If you like sci-fi with a difference, I'd strongly recommend Anathem by Neal Stephenson. It's mind blowing.

Dave eggers - The Circle

Children of the Dust. I still think of that bloody dog!

I hated Station Eleven. Interesting and thoughtful but too many implausibilities.

Kennington Super Cannes and High Rise are two of my favourite books of all time. Give the high rise film a miss though and read the book, much better

Children of the Dust. See I'm so traumatised I can't bear to google the synopsis! And I've slightly projected my life aged 9 over the top of the story (did they live in s cul-de-sac?) and its a big old mash up. It also completely put me off dystopia fiction. But my non reading DS 10 and I just finished the Hunger Games trilogy which we both loved and I thought I might have the stomach for something a bit stronger!

The problem with the stand is the numbers don't stack up. Giving 99.6% mortality rate still leaves 320,000 in New York alone. Even a small city such as york would have around 8,000 survivors.

Plus, within a week of the population being mostly wiped out, everyone's a bloody survival expert, being adept at making fires, catching game, knowing which kit to take from the camping supply stores which are located at convenient distances and miraculously haven't been looted, having enough water, food etc.

And they're too damn cheerful. Everyone they know is dead, ffs. Not one of the protagonists seems particularly fussed about that.

And their committee wouldn't have worked, at the first mention someone would have said 'hey, who died and made you king?'. And insisted on a proper vote.

Also, who the fuck would have gone to Vegas? Even the dark man's echelons are shit scared and creeped out by him, so why did people go there? Granted, you have your oddballs like the trash can man, but they are mostly normal people...

But I do love it, despite all that!

I read Children of the Dust! Still remember it so so clearly.

Its not published yet, but keep an eye out for a book called Hellscape.

its due for release by the author in the next month, and its a sci-fi, end of the world, dystopian/horror type story.

I've been on the Beta Reading team while its being going through final edits and its incredible!