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Anitra Freeman's "Dystopia Novels"

These are societies that, like "Brave New World," were intended to be Utopias, at least for some. Other "dystopias," like the world of "Postman" or "Mad Max," I list as "Post-Apocalypse."

1. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
 
2. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
 
3. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
 
4. A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
 
5. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
 
6. Feed
by M.T. Anderson
 
7. The Giver
by Lois Lowry
 
8. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
 
9. Iron Heel
by Jack London
 
10. It Can't Happen Here (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Sinclair Lewis
 
11. Kallocain
by Karin Boye
 
12. The Machine Stops
by E. M. Forster
 
13. News From Nowhere (Oxford World's Classics)
by William Morris
 
14. The Shockwave Rider
by John Brunner
 
15. The Space Merchants
by Frederik Pohl
 
16. The Time Machine (Tor Classics)
by H. G. Wells
 
17. Utopia X
by Scott Wilson
 
18. We (Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin
 
19.
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
by Kate Wilhelm
 
20.
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The Marching Morons
by C. M. Kornbluth
 
21.
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Riders of the Purple Wage
by Philip Jose Farmer
 
22. Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
by Neal Stephenson
 
23. Anthem
by Ayn Rand
 
24. The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
by Cordwainer Smith
 
25. Logan's Run (Logan)
by William F. Nolan
 
26. Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1)
by Scott Westerfeld
 
27. Revolt in 2100
by Heinlein Robert
 
28. The Sleeper Awakes (Penguin Classics)
by H.G. Wells
 
29.
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WILD JACK (by the author of No Blade of Grass)
by John (pen name used by Christopher Samuel Youd) Christopher
 
30. The Stepford Wives
by Ira Levin
 
31. A Scanner Darkly (Gollancz SF)
by Philip K. Dick
 
32. Neuromancer
by William Gibson
 
33. The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
by Neal Stephenson
 
34. When Gravity Fails
by George Alec Effinger
 
35. Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
by Richard K. Morgan
 
36.
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THE PENULTIMATE TRUTH
by Philip K. Dick
 
37.
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Queer Free
by Alabama Birdstone
 
38.
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Cry in the Desert
by Jed A. Bryan
 
39. The Immortals
by Tracy Hickman
 
40.
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SHELTERED LIVES
by Charles Oberndorf
 
41.
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The Boiled Frog Syndrome
by Marty Rubin
 
42. Return to Isis
by Jean Stewart
 
43.
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Project Lambda
by Paul O. Welles
 
44. Swastika Night
by Katharine Burdekin
 
45.
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The day of the women
by Pamela Kettle
 
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Created by Anitra Freeman on Dec 11, 2006.