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Dystopia

Post by Pappa » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:30 am

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. :ask:
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Re: Dystopia

Post by Animavore » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:33 am

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Re: Dystopia

Post by laklak » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:53 am

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.

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Re: Dystopia

Post by Pappa » Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:13 am

Brave New World is shit though.
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Post by anna09 » Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:17 am

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.
I just started A Handmaid's Tale tonight and I'm already over halfway through it.

For me (so far): 1984, Brave New World, and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Re: Dystopia

Post by laklak » Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:26 am

Pappa wrote:Brave New World is shit though.
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Re: Dystopia

Post by macdoc » Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:29 am

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
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Re: Dystopia

Post by Audley Strange » Sat Jan 19, 2013 7:01 am

Erewhon. Samuel Butler.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell
We. Yevgeny Zamyatin.
The Drowned World. J.G. Ballard.
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Re: Dystopia

Post by Bella Fortuna » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:02 pm

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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Re: Dystopia

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:05 pm

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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Re: Dystopia

Post by tattuchu » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:08 pm

And the Last Word Is Cheese. By me :smoke:
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Re: Dystopia

Post by Pappa » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:21 pm

Audley Strange wrote:We. Yevgeny Zamyatin.
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.
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Re: Dystopia

Post by Bella Fortuna » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:25 pm

Pappa wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:We. Yevgeny Zamyatin.
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.
Had never heard of this but it sounds interesting - and the library has it, so I've ordered it. :td:
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Re: Dystopia

Post by Audley Strange » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:33 pm

Pappa wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:We. Yevgeny Zamyatin.
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.
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.
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Post by Pappa » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:44 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Pappa wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:We. Yevgeny Zamyatin.
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.
Had never heard of this but it sounds interesting - and the library has it, so I've ordered it. :td:
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