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What are some good dystopian novels? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by minorsecond@lemm.ee to c/books@lemmy.ml

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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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[+] Flimango@lemmy.world -19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged

it's a demanding read, but one of the absolute best.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope.

Ayn Rand makes me want to call Sargeant Beatty to douse some petrol.

[–] exuberantlime@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Kayel@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

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.