20 Best Dystopian Novels
[via ShortList.com]
Dystopian fiction is nothing new. A mainstay of science fiction writing over the years has been to speculate about a future which has taken a distinct turn for the worse. There’s no beautiful end point, only a joyless, dysfunctional dystopia.
Humanity aims for constant progress; movement towards a superior standard of living. But what happens when everything goes wrong instead?
Here are 20 of the greatest novels focusing on the darker side of life:
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Chrysalids by John Wyndhaw
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Iron Heel by Jack London
- Logan’s Run by William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- The Running Man by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King)
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- Article 5 by Kristen Simmons
- The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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