Dystopian Lit!

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Well, for my two cents, I'd rec Neuromancer by William Gibson and also his book of short stories, Burning Chrome.

― cicatrix_zero, Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:32 (twenty years ago) link

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood obv and I guess Oryx and Crake as well. And Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time is great, and especially interesting when compared with Brave New World and Atwood.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 29 March 2004 08:50 (twenty years ago) link

I love these too. I've always wanted to include John Wyndham, though he's more post-apoc. than dystopic.

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

wow. many excellent suggestions here. sara l, archel and bnw especially. george saunders' last story in the new yorker - i think it was called "jon" - is worth a look.

"the golden space" by pamela sargent is excellent, but obscure.

if you don't mind reading children's lit (i don't) i'd recommend "the giver" by lois lowry. it won the newberry medal.

also eleni's suggestion is great. i hadn't thought of "the dwarf" as dystopian but i guess it is! it's also funny because it's like reading a novel by nietzsche - if you get a kick out of his polemical style you'll enjoy "the dwarf".

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago) link

I loved The Giver. I summaraized it for someone later on and they were like, "I can't believe that was a children's book..."

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Thursday, 1 April 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

Anyone read Swedish novelist Karen Boye's 1940 book Kallocain? New translation coming on Penguin late this year.

Keen to check out Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police & Yoko Tawada's The Last Children of Tokyo/The Emissary.

― etc, Saturday, 3 August 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link

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