What Is Your Favorite Dystopian Novel?

[ChezC3]

What is your favorite dystopian novel?

Me, I have to go with 'The Iron Heel' by Jack London.

It also makes my "of all time" list too...

What about you?

 

[CaptainCourtesy]

1984 by George Orwell or Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. There was also a 5 book series written by a fantasy/sci-fi writer that I read a long time ago of which I cannot remember the name.

 

[Helix]

Probably The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (SK pseudonym.)

 

[mak2]

Under the Dome, the recent Stephen King book. The book was great, the ending was weak.

 

[Tigger]

Two of them.....

"Farenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

"Repent Harlequin, Said the Tick-Tock Man" by Harlon Ellison

 

[ttwtt78640]

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

 

[PirateMk1]

What is your favorite dystopian novel?

Me, I have to go with 'The Iron Heel' by Jack London.

It also makes my "of all time" list too...

What about you?

The Stand, Stephan King.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Phillip K. Dick
The Minority Report Phillip K. Dick
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The Hunger Games Series. Suzan Collins
The Enders Game Series. Orson Scot Card

 

[LaughAtTheWorld]

The Stand, Stephan King.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Phillip K. Dick
The Minority Report Phillip K. Dick
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The Hunger Games Series. Suzan Collins
The Enders Game Series. Orson Scot Card

I really don't think the Ender's Game series as dystopian, nor do I get the hype about it. To me, it seemed to have been poorly written with a poor grasp of sci-fi.

 

[PirateMk1]

I really don't think the Ender's Game series as dystopian, nor do I get the hype about it. To me, it seemed to have been poorly written with a poor grasp of sci-fi.

To each their own. All science fiction has its flaws. The real question is do you enjoy reading what was written. I enjoyed the Enders series. I read it a long time ago before it was hyped or a movie.

 

[Roland Deschain]

The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Stand - Stephen King

Loved Ender's Game too but just don't consider that dystopian really though it kinda is in a way I guess.

 

[Un biased]

The running man

 

[ChezC3]

1984 by George Orwell or Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. There was also a 5 book series written by a fantasy/sci-fi writer that I read a long time ago of which I cannot remember the name.

Robert Heinlein?

 

[ChezC3]

The Stand, Stephan King.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Phillip K. Dick
The Minority Report Phillip K. Dick
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The Hunger Games Series. Suzan Collins
The Enders Game Series. Orson Scot Card

The Stand, good

Atlas Shrugged, horrendous

The rest, I haven't read.

My favorite reads tend to all be from writer's who are dead.

Umberto Eco is the only living writer I'd put in my top 5 authors...

 

[ttwtt78640]

The Stand, good

Atlas Shrugged, horrendous

The rest, I haven't read.

My favorite reads tend to all be from writer's who are dead.

Umberto Eco is the only living writer I'd put in my top 5 authors...

I would add Ken Follett to any list of the best living authors.

 

[ChezC3]

I would add Ken Follett to any list of the best living authors.

Knowing that they are no substitute, I did enjoy Pillars of the Earth and World Without End in movie format...


but otherwise I haven't read him...

 

[LaughAtTheWorld]

To each their own. All science fiction has its flaws. The real question is do you enjoy reading what was written. I enjoyed the Enders series. I read it a long time ago before it was hyped or a movie.

Well, we may agree to disagree, but may I inquire as to why you consider that series dystopian?

 

[ttwtt78640]

Knowing that they are no substitute, I did enjoy Pillars of the Earth and World Without End in movie format...


but otherwise I haven't read him...

Eye of the Needle (1978?) was also made into a movie (1981) starring Donald Sutherland.

Ken Follett | Filmography

 

[PirateMk1]

Well, we may agree to disagree, but may I inquire as to why you consider that series dystopian?

Because the setting is in a non-utopian world, that was originally completely or largely devastated.

 

[ChezC3]

I guess it would fall under dystopian -- has anyone else read the Endworld/Blade series? I remember it from my youth. Quick, little paperbacks you could usually get halfway through in study hall. 150 pgs or there about per book, if my memory serves me correctly.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

The cyber punk books by William Gibson

Neuromancer (1984)
Count Zero (1986)
Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)

 

[CaptainCourtesy]

Robert Heinlein?

Nope. I was never much of a fan of his, either.

 

[Andalublue]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Children of Men by P D James

 

[ChezC3]

Nope. I was never much of a fan of his, either.

Well, than I guess it will remain a mystery because I could barely remember that one.

 

[ChezC3]

I still can't believe no one has read Endworld, David Robbins?

Endworld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anyone?

*Ah, hell, he wrote two more in 2009 and 13? Didn't even know about that, have to check those out..

 

[molten_dragon]

I would have to say the Revelation Space trilogy (and the associated books/short stories set in the same universe) by Alastair Reynolds are my favorites.