Your favourite Dystopian novels

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Hi, I love dystopian fiction and would love to read some new books.

Can I ask for any of your recommendations?

Thanks in advance!

@ThreeFeetTall I reread Station Eleven recently and found it took on a whole new level of poignancy:

“An incomplete list:
No more diving into pools of chlorinated water lit green from below. No more ball games played out under floodlights. No more porch lights with moths fluttering on summer nights. No more trains running under the surface of cities on the dazzling power of the electric third rail. No more cities. No more films, except rarely, except with a generator drowning out half the dialogue, and only then for the first little while until the fuel for the generators ran out, because automobile gas goes stale after two or three years. Aviation gas lasts longer, but it was difficult to come by.
No more screens shining in the half-light as people raise their phones above the crowd to take pictures of concert states. No more concert stages lit by candy-colored halogens, no more electronica, punk, electric guitars.
No more pharmaceuticals. No more certainty of surviving a scratch on one's hand, a cut on a finger while chopping vegetables for dinner, a dog bite.
No more flight. No more towns glimpsed from the sky through airplane windows, points of glimmering light; no more looking down from thirty thousand feet and imagining the lives lit up by those lights at that moment. No more airplanes, no more requests to put your tray table in its upright and locked position – but no, this wasn't true, there were still airplanes here and there. They stood dormant on runways and in hangars. They collected snow on their wings. In the cold months, they were ideal for food storage. In summer the ones near orchards were filled with trays of fruit that dehydrated in the heat. Teenagers snuck into them to have sex. Rust blossomed and streaked.
No more countries, all borders unmanned.
No more fire departments, no more police. No more road maintenance or garbage pickup. No more spacecraft rising up from Cape Canaveral, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, from Vandenburg, Plesetsk, Tanegashima, burning paths through the atmosphere into space."

Vox
The end of the world running club
Station 11
Ready player 2 (more in the vein of Tron though)

Oh I love this genre. Station eleven was brilliant.

End of the world running club, and it's sequel. Fantastic

If you don’t mind it being teen fiction, The Power by Naomi Alderman is fascinating

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham. Any John Wyndham but that one’s the best.

The Flame Alphabet. It is the weirdest book I’ve ever read about a dystopian future. I’d love to hear if anyone else has read it.

The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver.

The Power by Naomi Alderman.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan
I know! Reading Station Eleven last year was very strange. I started it in March and had to stop as it made me feel so much more anxious but when I came back to it later in the year I found it oddly comforting, to think that at least Covid isn't that bad.

The Day of The Triffids
Dark Eden trilogy

Death of grass by John Christopher is fantastic. As is earth abides, the stand and madadam trilogy already mentioned

Philip K Dick novels are cult dystopian currently en vogue. The Testaments concludes The Handmaid’s Tale brilliantly. The Giver is an easy read and quite moving.

Another vote for Oryx and Crake /Madaddam trilogy here!

Ilona Andrews Kate Daniels books are set in a world where magic and technology are fighting it out. Not sure urban fantasy is where you want to go, but they series is lots of blood thirsty fun.

I really enjoyed the small change trilogy by Jo Walton.

@Cleebope2 I’m finally on trend. Currently reading The Man in the high castle after watching the series and seeing that ending

Excellent thread 📖

Agree with The MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood

84K by Claire North

Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel

Ooh, this thread is a bit of me! I have just got the first ‘wool’ book, haven’t started it yet.
I’ve read most of the ‘classics’, 1984, brave new world, handmaids tale, the trial.

There was one I read quite recently called ‘Nod’ about people losing the ability to sleep, nothing mind blowing, but was quite a nice easy read.

Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy

Aldous Huxley Brave New World
Time must have a stop

Peter Heller, The Dog Stars. Post-climate, post-plague Colorado.

I enjoyed the first of The MaddAddam trilogy but I'm struggling with the second. I should probably try again, I had lots of babies so reading was hard. There's still lots of them but they smell better so I might try again.

Also following for recommendations

I’ve just added loads of stuff to my goodreads! 😊

I loved Swan Song by Robert MCcammon but my all time favourite is The Stand by Steven King