Great Dystopian Novels

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23 Mar 2020, 10:25 pm

With the coronavirus pandemic growing stronger on an almost daily basis, what are some great dystopian novels you have read and would recommend to others?

Animal Farm
World War Z
Slaughterhouse Five
Fahrenheit 451
War Of The Worlds
The Time Machine
Lord Of The Flies
Children Of Men

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24 Mar 2020, 3:17 am

mutany :drunken: :hic: Mutiny on the Bounty
Notes from Underground
The Metamorphosis
The Odyssey
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as in

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24 Mar 2020, 3:41 am

White Noise - Don Delillo

Ridley Walker - Kirk Vonnegut

Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M.Coetzee

Ridley Walker - Rusell Hoban

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24 Mar 2020, 3:45 am

Dystopia - Christopher Fowler
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

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Thanks for mentioning Slaughterhouse Five, I laughed so hard over the shrunken waistcoat incident that I fell out of bed!

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24 Mar 2020, 8:11 am

"The Lathe of Heaven", by Ursula K. LeGuin

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24 Mar 2020, 9:14 am

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White Noise - Don Delillo

Timequake - Kirk Vonnegut

Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M.Coetzee

Ridley Walker - Rusell Hoban

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24 Mar 2020, 12:25 pm

Lord of the World--Robert H. Benson

The Dawn of All--Benson one year later

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24 Mar 2020, 12:55 pm

The Handmaiden's Tale - Margaret Atwood

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04 Apr 2020, 4:09 pm

Anybody consider some of works of "Gabriel Garcia Marquez?"

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04 Apr 2020, 4:17 pm

A Canticle For Leibowitz

And movies like...

Soylent Green

Planet of the Apes

The aforementioned "Handmaiden's Tale".

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04 Apr 2020, 5:34 pm

1984 - I find this more chilling then anything else. I think that the film version and John Hurt and Richard Burton captured the horrifying nature of an inhuman totalitarian state superbly.

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