What are some good dystopian novels?
What are some good dystopian novels?
I'm nearly finished rereading 1984 and my appetite for dystopian books is whetted. What are some other great ones I should check out?
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Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
it's a demanding read, but one of the absolute best.
Nope.
Ayn Rand makes me want to call Sargeant Beatty to douse some petrol.
It depicts a "socialist" dystopia turning into the ideal libertarian dystopia. Not only does it fail the philosiphical sniff test, its just a bad novel with poor pacing. The climax is a character giving a long ~60 page(??? Read it a long time ago) speech that deflates whatever momentum the story had.
I think a society has to be believable to be a good dystopic novel.
Rands world building is non existent and she treats the society as merely an excuse to write long boring speeches about a world she hardly experienced; instead having a proxy knowledge sourced from drunk old men.