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    We - zamyatin
    Heart of a dog - bulgakov (more satire)
    The Foundation Pit - Platonov
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    the diamond age

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    Ooooooo ...... The Diamond Age - Stephenson's best book, in my (ever so) humble opinion.

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    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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    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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    We are living it right now.
    watch out for snakes

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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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    Banged through this in about a day...

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    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)
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    Lucifer's Hammer
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    plugging Red Rising trilogy again!

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    That book didn't age so well
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Summit View Post
    That book didn't age so well
    How so? It's been 25 years since I read it, so maybe my memory of it is fuzzy.
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by I've seen black diamonds! View Post
    The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester.

    It's like cyberpunk written 30 years before cyberpunk was a thing. Great, quick read.
    A very good book!!
    Try reading the Broken Earth trilogy by NK Jemisin, some of the best sci-fi/fantasy I've read in ages

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    Quote Originally Posted by kamtron View Post
    A very good book!!
    Try reading the Broken Earth trilogy by NK Jemisin, some of the best sci-fi/fantasy I've read in ages
    Cool. My wife just gave me "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms." All I need now is time to read.

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    Anyone read any newspaper lately?

    Super ultra dystopian
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    Trying to get through 'The Plague' by one of my favorite authors, Al C.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kamtron View Post
    A very good book!!
    Try reading the Broken Earth trilogy by NK Jemisin, some of the best sci-fi/fantasy I've read in ages
    Very good books for sure, read them a few months ago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dookey67 View Post
    Dunno what your stance on comic books is, but Y THE LAST MAN is a fantastic 60-issue series. It was complied into 10 trade paperback collections.

    FX has a TV series in development, too...
    Nice comic series with meaning and logical story, but I didn't understand why the series was antipopular.
    Last edited by lafnian1990; 03-30-2021 at 06:59 AM.

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    another Vonnegut is ​Player Piano

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    The Road and Blood Meridian FTW, but has Neuromancer by William Gibson been mentioned.?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rip View Post
    Earth Abides, George R Stewart..

    From 1949 but seems pretty relevant these days.
    +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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