more dystopia please

[theredjellybean]

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....

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

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!

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

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

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.

Definitely the Stand by King and the Wool trilogy which I couldn't get enough of.
Slightly different to the other books recommended (thank you to pps I'm going to download station eleven right now!) have you read World War Z by Max Brooks? I swear to god it is nothing like the HORRIFIC film they made of it with Brad Pitt in, even his presence didn't make that pile of shit any better.
I've re-read WWZ at least 4 times I just love it and how it's presented as a factual retelling rather than fiction. Really good 😊

@QuilliamCakespeare 👍😃

I also agree with @SisyphusDad about 'The Girls with all the Gifts'.

Read lots here (love Wyndham) and some great new ideas.

Commenting specifically to agree with harper30 about WWZ - fabulous book, film bears no resemblance to it - it made me so cross! It would make a fabulous one-off Netflix series!

You are all my people... Thankyou, I had forgotten the girl with all the gifts.. Read it and station 11 some time ago.
I have read passage and the following two books.
Have downloaded wool and the long road and will start working my way through the other suggestions.
And of course hanging out for the sequel to the handmaid's tale... ☺

@CalmConfident it would make a fantastic Netflix series!!!

There’s a sequel to Girl With All the Gifts (well, it’s more of a prequel). Think it’s called The Boy On The Bridge.

@CalmConfident I bet WWZ could be done brilliantly as a series - each episode from a different persons perspective, like the book, slowly bringing them all together.

The film was utter rubbish.

Exactly !!!!

Ooh following this one. Love dystopian future books.

Agree with What a Lovely Way to Burn and sequels .

A few more classic feminist dystopias that might appeal if you liked Handmaid's Tale / Vox / The Power

• Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy (various futures, not all dystopian)
• Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin
• Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines by Suzy Mackee Charnas (real full on dystopia)

I'd definitely recommend Ursula le Guin. The Dispossessed is my favourite - it's subtitled 'An ambiguous Utopia' - but it features two worlds, Anarres (the ambiguous utopia) and Urras which is definitely dystopian. Her short story collection The Birthday of the World includes a number of dystopian stories, including my favourite short story of all time, Solitude which is post-apocalyptic.

Moving away from 70s feminists, Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter is post-pandemic (though not really dystopian) and a really good read - the Gems are genetically modified humans.

And I'm not sure that anyone has mentioned Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban - post nuclear apocalypse written in an imagined future post-English (which is actually very easy to read once you get your head round it)

I think the small change trilogy by Jo Walton might fit your criteria, not my usual read, but absolutely loved them - just checked and the first book is 99p on the kindle at the mo.

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.

The Children of Men - PD James.

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro.

Am assuming you've done the classics: Brave New World, 1984, A Clockwork Orange, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The best YA dystopian fiction I've read is the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness, beginning with The Knife of Never Letting Go. I really recommend it.

So many suggestions here. I’m having to post so I can find it later and make a list. I have read nearly half of all suggested so the rest should be right up my street.

Sweet Fruit Sour Land by Rebecca Ley. Genuinely one of the best books I've ever read. Has an air of Margaret Atwood about it so you'd like it if you loved the Handmaid's Tale

Wool trilogy is brilliant!

JG Ballard for some vintage dystopia.

The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff(?) Vandermeer. Genuinely creepy and just bloody brilliant.
Agree with JG Ballard and John Wyndham.