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Thread: Dystopian Books
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04-06-2020, 05:02 PM #26
We - zamyatin
Heart of a dog - bulgakov (more satire)
The Foundation Pit - Platonov
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the diamond age
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04-06-2020, 06:45 PM #27Registered User
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Ooooooo ...... The Diamond Age - Stephenson's best book, in my (ever so) humble opinion.
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05-11-2020, 01:13 AM #28
Got sucked into a John Christopher rabbit hole tonight.
I read his original Tripods Trilogy in grade school and that was it.
I had no idea that the bulk of his work was post-apocalyptic/dystopian. He has a number of titles to his credit that sound really interesting and rather prescient, to say the least...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christopher
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05-11-2020, 07:01 AM #29
Persephone‘s Curse is set in a dystopian world that is held hostage by a virus. If you like handmaids tale you might like this.
www.sandrabats.com/persephones-curse
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05-11-2020, 07:11 AM #30
We are living it right now.
watch out for snakes
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06-08-2020, 07:18 AM #31Registered User
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The first few books that popped in my mind are:
1. Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
2. Battle Royale Koushun Takami
3. Borne Jeff Vandemeer
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09-23-2020, 10:01 AM #32
Banged through this in about a day...
This is an engrossing tech noir/murder mystery/conspiracy theory novel taking place in an alternate California where recording the truth is paramount.
RIYL:
The Crying of Lot 49; 1984; Sleepless; "Repent Harlequin!', Said the Ticktockman"; Logan's Run (the film); The Adjustment Bureau (the film)Last edited by dookey67; 09-23-2020 at 04:00 PM.
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09-23-2020, 12:45 PM #33
Lucifer's Hammer
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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09-23-2020, 03:30 PM #34
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09-23-2020, 03:47 PM #35
The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester.
It's like cyberpunk written 30 years before cyberpunk was a thing. Great, quick read.
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09-23-2020, 04:53 PM #36"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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09-23-2020, 05:15 PM #37
Not so much dystopian but replete with scathing sarcasm for the human condition, any of the Cabell book covering the Lineage of Dom Manual:
Figures of Earth
The Silver Stallion
Jurgen
Something About Eve
The Rivet in Grandfathers Neck.
The guy was a boundless wordsmith, buddies with HL Mencken, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tolkein and C.S. Lewis. Mad vocabulary, word games, anagrams, etc. And caustic.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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09-23-2020, 05:19 PM #38
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09-23-2020, 05:28 PM #39
Cool. My wife just gave me "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms." All I need now is time to read.
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09-23-2020, 05:50 PM #40
Anyone read any newspaper lately?
Super ultra dystopian. . .
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09-23-2020, 08:41 PM #41Registered User
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Trying to get through 'The Plague' by one of my favorite authors, Al C.
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09-23-2020, 09:38 PM #42"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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02-15-2021, 06:59 AM #43Registered User
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02-15-2021, 09:35 AM #44
another Vonnegut is Player Piano
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02-15-2021, 10:56 AM #45
The Road and Blood Meridian FTW, but has Neuromancer by William Gibson been mentioned.?
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02-15-2021, 02:14 PM #46
+1
Read it early on into the pandemic last Spring; perhaps more post-apocalyptic than dystopian, if there is such a diff. Extremely intelligent imagining of how things might play out in the decades following a grinding halt to civilization.
Lots of food for thought - a truly great read!
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