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Dystopia
Favourite dystopian novels/films/etc.?
For me... probably...
1984
The Trial (kinda dystopian in a historical sense)
THX 1138
Um...maybe I've got very few favourites.
For me... probably...
1984
The Trial (kinda dystopian in a historical sense)
THX 1138
Um...maybe I've got very few favourites.
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Heaven. From The Bible.
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So many - 1984 and THX1138 of course. Also A Clockwork Orange, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Brave New World, A Handmaid's Tale, Fatherland, Logan's Run. Probably more.
I gotta go download some books.
I gotta go download some books.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Brave New World is shit though.
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I just started A Handmaid's Tale tonight and I'm already over halfway through it.laklak wrote:So many - 1984 and THX1138 of course. Also A Clockwork Orange, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Brave New World, A Handmaid's Tale, Fatherland, Logan's Run. Probably more.
I gotta go download some books.
For me (so far): 1984, Brave New World, and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Noooooooooooo! Orgy Porgy, By Ford.Pappa wrote:Brave New World is shit though.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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ah loads out lately
Wool
Dog Star
The Earth Abides ( absolutelly amazing considering when it was written )
Atopia
2084 - an Oral History of the Great Warming
The Hunger Games trilogy
Insurgent Trilogy - Chicago like it might become
Crystal Rain series - Caribbean heroes - very cool
The Forever War - mind bending and again incredible for when it was written
The Windup Girl - close to the possible
Voice of the Whirlwind series
What Came After....
Wool
Dog Star
The Earth Abides ( absolutelly amazing considering when it was written )
Atopia
2084 - an Oral History of the Great Warming
The Hunger Games trilogy
Insurgent Trilogy - Chicago like it might become
Crystal Rain series - Caribbean heroes - very cool
The Forever War - mind bending and again incredible for when it was written
The Windup Girl - close to the possible
Voice of the Whirlwind series
What Came After....
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Erewhon. Samuel Butler.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell
We. Yevgeny Zamyatin.
The Drowned World. J.G. Ballard.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell
We. Yevgeny Zamyatin.
The Drowned World. J.G. Ballard.
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There's another by Ballard called High Rise that I'd like to get... unfortunately my library doesn't have it.
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Stand On Zanzibar, probably the first one I read that I recognized as dystopian. I'd been silent audience to a couple of very smart and very stoned guys talking about the concept and referencing various books. One of them had SOZ, so I kipped it after they passed out.
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Tigger said it was like 1984. 'Cept funny
Tigger said it was like 1984. 'Cept funny
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Oh yes.... how could I have forgotten about that. What an excellent book. Huxley was accused of ripping it off in Brave New World. He denied it, but Orwell openly called him a liar. Considering the circles he was in, it's unlikely that Huxley was unaware of We. From what I understand, manuscript copies of it were doing the rounds among literary types in the US at the time.Audley Strange wrote:We. Yevgeny Zamyatin.
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Had never heard of this but it sounds interesting - and the library has it, so I've ordered it.Pappa wrote:Oh yes.... how could I have forgotten about that. What an excellent book. Huxley was accused of ripping it off in Brave New World. He denied it, but Orwell openly called him a liar. Considering the circles he was in, it's unlikely that Huxley was unaware of We. From what I understand, manuscript copies of it were doing the rounds among literary types in the US at the time.Audley Strange wrote:We. Yevgeny Zamyatin.
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Someone recommended it to me a few years back. Can't compare it to Huxley since I have not read BNW since I was a child.Pappa wrote:Oh yes.... how could I have forgotten about that. What an excellent book. Huxley was accused of ripping it off in Brave New World. He denied it, but Orwell openly called him a liar. Considering the circles he was in, it's unlikely that Huxley was unaware of We. From what I understand, manuscript copies of it were doing the rounds among literary types in the US at the time.Audley Strange wrote:We. Yevgeny Zamyatin.
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Book Review Or It Never HappenedBella Fortuna wrote:Had never heard of this but it sounds interesting - and the library has it, so I've ordered it.Pappa wrote:Oh yes.... how could I have forgotten about that. What an excellent book. Huxley was accused of ripping it off in Brave New World. He denied it, but Orwell openly called him a liar. Considering the circles he was in, it's unlikely that Huxley was unaware of We. From what I understand, manuscript copies of it were doing the rounds among literary types in the US at the time.Audley Strange wrote:We. Yevgeny Zamyatin.
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