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Jillian'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. All Tomorrow's Parties
by William Gibson
 
2. Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
by Richard K. Morgan
 
3. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
 
4. Anthem
by Ayn Rand
 
5. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
 
6. A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
 
7. Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
 
8. The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
by Neal Stephenson
 
9. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
 
10. Feed
by M.T. Anderson
 
11. The Giver
by Lois Lowry
 
12. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
 
13. The Immortals
by Tracy Hickman
 
14. Iron Heel
by Jack London
 
15. It Can't Happen Here (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Sinclair Lewis
 
16. Kallocain
by Karin Boye
 
17. The Lathe of Heaven: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
 
18. Logan's Run (Logan)
by William F. Nolan
 
19. The Machine Stops
by E. M. Forster
 
20. Neuromancer
by William Gibson
 
21. Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
 
22. News From Nowhere (Oxford World's Classics)
by William Morris
 
23. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
 
24. Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
 
25. Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler
 
26. The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
by Cordwainer Smith
 
27. Return to Isis
by Jean Stewart
 
28. Revolt in 2100
by Heinlein Robert
 
29. The Running Man
by Stephen King
 
30. A Scanner Darkly (Gollancz SF)
by Philip K. Dick
 
31. The Shockwave Rider
by John Brunner
 
32. The Sleeper Awakes (Penguin Classics)
by H.G. Wells
 
33. Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
by Neal Stephenson
 
34. The Space Merchants
by Frederik Pohl
 
35. The Stepford Wives
by Ira Levin
 
36. Swastika Night
by Katharine Burdekin
 
37. The Time Machine (Tor Classics)
by H. G. Wells
 
38. Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1)
by Scott Westerfeld
 
39. Utopia X
by Scott Wilson
 
40. We (Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin
 
41. When Gravity Fails
by George Alec Effinger
 
42.
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
by Kate Wilhelm
 
43. Truesight
by David Stahler Jr.
 
44. Nineteen Eighty Four
by George Orwell
 
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Created by Jillian on Jul 01, 2008.