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more dystopia please

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theredjellybean · 02/03/2019 15:10

help..i think i have run out of dystopian futures..

i have read all Margaret Atwood
the power, vox, the wall, the ship, farneheight 451, a book by ben elton about illegal books ( can't recall the name) , only ever yours, and the well, another one about a plague/virus in uk ( cant recall its name follows two mums and group of kids who were camping at the time escape to norway) , all three of the passage trilogy...

some more suggestions please....

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BareBelliedSneetch · 03/03/2019 18:57

definitely the girl with all ththe gifts
Yes yes yes to John wyndham - have you read the triffids? And the Kraken awakes.
And another vote for David Brin’s postman. Shit film, Marvellous book!

There’s one about a midwife, can’t remember the name.

SisyphusDad · 03/03/2019 18:48

Another of John Wyndham's worth a read is 'The Trouble With Lichen'.

SisyphusDad · 03/03/2019 18:46

Highly recommend 'The Girl With All The Gifts' (my autocorrect had the last word as 'fudge' Smile, by Mike Carey. His Felix Castor series is also very good.

weegiemum · 03/03/2019 18:45

I was coming on to say John Wyndham - my favourite is The Kraken Wakes.

Also my favourite author Ursula le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven. There's Always Coming Home too, but it's very, very post apocalyptic!

FiveStoryFire · 03/03/2019 18:41

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham.
Actually, anything by John Wyndham.

ZipityFlippity · 03/03/2019 18:37

The Wool Trilogy by Hugh Howey. I was so sad to finish the trilogy and even fan fiction written based upon it.

QuilliamCakespeare · 03/03/2019 18:31

@buckingfrolicks and @sakura06 You are totally my people Grin

QuilliamCakespeare · 03/03/2019 18:30

Sorry, missed that you'd read The Power already.

Station Eleven is really good.

Remembered another that I LOVE: The Wool Series by Hugh Howey. It's based on a community that live underground in a silo and people get sent outside to their deaths if they step out of line. Society rapidly starts to unravel...

QuilliamCakespeare · 03/03/2019 18:28

Can't remember the author but I'm reading a trilogy that's really good - the first book is 'Infection'. The characters are well rounded, the plot is compelling, and the outlook is suitably grim.

I loved Vox. Have you read The Power by Naomi Alderman? Thats on a par with Vox IMO.

If you haven't read the Passage Trilogy by Justin Cronin I highly recommend that. I'm jealous of anyone who gets to read it for the first time!

sakura06 · 03/03/2019 18:26

Another for 'Station Eleven' by Emily St John Mandel and 'The Passage' by Justin Cronin!

If you like fantasy, I'd also recommend N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy.

buckingfrolicks · 03/03/2019 18:23

Wool. Best dystopian trilogy I have ever read.

BikeTart · 03/03/2019 18:16

The Long Walk by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman. Really very good.

ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 03/03/2019 17:59

Also, Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess. It's more horror than dystopia. Very odd! I heard it as a radio play and was hooked.

ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 03/03/2019 17:58

A Lovely Way to Burn - Louise Welch
It's another plague apocalypse one but it's well worth a read. Great central character and it's the start of a trilogy.

Momzilla82 · 03/03/2019 17:56

A third for station eleven. One of those books that stayed with me for a long time afterwards

Patr1ckJane · 03/03/2019 17:55

The passage

cdtaylornats · 03/03/2019 17:52

S. M. Stirling Emberverse series starts with Dies the Fire.

The Postman by David Brin

Harry Turtledove Supervolcano series

PomBearWithAnOFRS · 03/03/2019 16:37

The "White Flag of the Dead" series by Joseph Talluto. They are really good, some of the very few 'disposable' eBooks I ever re-read.
I like the old classic "cozy catastrophe" stuff too, John Wyndham and John Christopher in particular.
If you liked the Passage, you might like the "Forest of Hands and Teeth" and the sequel by Carrie Ryan.

MemorialBeach · 03/03/2019 15:09

I second The Stand. Also We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

RiddleyW · 03/03/2019 08:55

Second for station 11 - best book I’ve read in ages

AFistfulofDolores1 · 03/03/2019 08:52

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

BitOfFun · 03/03/2019 07:54

Station 11. Gorgeous book.

Winterfellismyhome · 03/03/2019 07:49

The ready player one film missed out massive parts of the book, they changed a lot. I defo recommend the book over the film Smile

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theredjellybean · 03/03/2019 07:45

Yes that's the one...

Already read the power.
What do other people think of vox?
I thought it was as good as handmaid's tale... Which is saying something as MA is my favourite author

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JustHereForThePooStories · 02/03/2019 22:12

cant recall its name follows two mums and group of kids who were camping at the time escape to norway

Jo Furniss’ All the Little Children?

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