Tom Watson's 'The House', obviously.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 09:44 (three years ago) link
Riddley Walker, but that might be optimistic.& compressing the timescale .BUt the Fox news watchers version of reality might rival the distortion.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 10:17 (three years ago) link
None of them. Dystopias are usually a bad way of imagining the future.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 11:03 (three years ago) link
I sure hope that Christopher Brown's Rule of Capture won't turn out to be very prophetic in the long run, but so far its extrapolation is proving more relentlessly plausible every day---talked about it recently on Rolling Speculative etc.
― dow, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
voted Butler
― sleeve, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 14 June 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
War With the Newts
― Greetings from CHAZbury Park (Lily Dale), Sunday, 14 June 2020 00:02 (three years ago) link
We're already well on our way to Parable of the Sower. The Dhalgren world is a bit too reliant on the supernatural, unexplainable elements, whereas you could remove that stuff from Parable and still have mostly the same story.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 14 June 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link
I voted Parable of the Sower, but only because this wasn't an option:https://www.ft.com/content/2d222ae6-b993-11e7-bff8-f9946607a6ba
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Sunday, 14 June 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
(link is to a review of https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/543957/american-war-by-omar-el-akkad/ )
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Sunday, 14 June 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 15 June 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link