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So, /lit/, I love dystopian novels. The Road, 1984, (Or anything Orwell wrote), Fahrenheit 451, and The Children of Men are my favorite novels at the moment.

Any reccomendations like them?

>> No.1551348

Ray Bradbury.

>> No.1551352

brave new world.


it pretty much says we're all gonna become vapid whores.

>> No.1551357

>>1551352
>implying we're not.

dystopia is a dominant theme in philip k. dick's work.

>> No.1551359

Anthem
trolololo.jpg

>> No.1551364

>>1551352
Ah, Huxley...
Shit's SO cash.

>> No.1551372
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1551372

Befome someone says Atals Shrugged
why dont you try playing BioShock?

>> No.1551384

>>1551372
Haha I have. It was sick as hell. Sequel was kinda disspointing IMO.

But thanks, I'll check out Bradbury and Dick, I've read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep too and really liked it.

I'll check out the Huxley one, but I know Orwell thought he plagerised it, did he?

>> No.1551408

>>1551384
no, huxley's presentation of the future although superficially similar is ideologically distinct.

Orwell: we will be pacified by a dictator
Huxley: we pacify ourselves with novelty

>> No.1551419

>>1551408
No, I mean Orwell thought he took it from another novel, not one that Orwell wrote. I think it was called We or something
Maybe I'm wrong, could easily be the case.

>> No.1551431

>>1551419
The two are similar, but Huxley didn't plagiarize

>> No.1552676

The Handmaid's Tale

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1552689

how about the godfather of all dystopian literature

>> No.1552691

>>1551419
>>1552689
hivemind, bro

>> No.1552708

"Oryx and Crake" and "Handmaid's Tale" by Atwood are both good.

>> No.1552724

Try "We" by Evgeny Zamyatin, this guy inspired Orwell, and i like him more than any of those you've mentioned.

>> No.1552730

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature

>> No.1552742

>>1552708
I'm reading Oryx and Crake right now. It's good, but why all the two-page chapters?

>> No.1552748

Why don't I ever see recommendations for Utopian literature? Why you gotta be so pessimistic, lit?

>> No.1552837

>>1552724
Yeah, I'm gonna check him out

>>1552730
That has a ton of bad books, frankly, and I was hoping for a form of differentiation.

>>1552748
Dystopian are more interesting? It fits my mindset more. But do you know any great utopian novels?

>> No.1552875

>>1552724
>>1552689
It's really good, but when you realize it was written in 1920 it definitely adds something. Here's the whole thing in pdf: http://mises.org/books/we_zamiatin.pdf