I absolutely love Brave New World. What next?

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Thought provoking, chilling, fascinating. I've read 1984 and loved it. What else might I like?

Try some John Wyndham

• The Chrysalids

• Midwich Cuckoos

• Day of the Triffids - don’t be put off by the rather excellent cheese fest B movie. I like to think of this as petrochemical over dependence / GM bio crop experimentation / 28 days later

• Chocky

Ooh thanks!

The Handmaid's Tale

Just coming on to say the chrysalids too. Read it as a teenager and it’s stayed with me for some reason.

I loved The Handmaid's take and Oryx and Crake.

Another recommendation for John Wyndham. The day of the triffids is probably my favourite book of all time.

Absolutely loved the oryx and crake trilogy.

Also the chaos walking trilogy (and indeed anything by Patrick ness), the Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey, the power by Naomi alderton. Will have a think if there’s any more. Dystopia is my favourite genre!

Woman on the Edge of Time is brilliant

Oh there’s an excellent short story by E M Forster called The Machine Stops that I think of a lot lately, while we are in lockdown. Very prescient

I have Nordenholt's Million by JJ Connington and The Professor by Rex Warner.
Both on the things going horribly wrong sort of theme.

Also recommend the midwich cuckoos!
And also hg wells, I liked the time machine, the war of the worlds and the island of dr Moreau

Have you read The Power by Naomi Alderman? Also to a lesser extent Vox by Christine Dalcher. Both near-future feminism based dystopians.

I also loved Dominion by CJ Samson, not dystopia but a ‘what if the Nazis had won WW2’. Chilling but fantastic.

Ooh also Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Jose Saramago Blindness

The trouble with lichen is a fantastic book

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is the book that heavily influenced 1984 and A Brave New World. Fahrenheit 451 is great too.

Agree about We by Zamyatin, really impressive that it was written in the 20s. I felt it started strongly then slightly lost its way, but still worth reading.

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Ooh also Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

If you liked Brave New World I think you'll like Never Let Me go. There is a strong resonance.