Name your dystopia

[bubba_fett]

People talk about this here occasionally. Dystopia novels can be hauntingly real sometimes (after all, that's their point - to warn).

So, which Dystopia novel hits a little too close to home for comfort?

My vote is somewhere between 1984, and The Wanting Seed (without the homosexual marriage, obviously).

[guitar man]

1. 1984

Brave New world a close second.

[Guy_Montag]

2. BNW

Sex & Drugs what more can you want?

[Throckmorton]

12. What, none of the Left Behind books made the list.

Oh Bliss, Oh Rapture

[wickerwoman]

3. Are we counting Lord of the Flies?

[theoceansnerves]

4. yevgeny zamyatin's

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but, 1984 and brave new world tied for second.

[Guy_Montag]

5. That was turned into a radio play on BBC radio 4 recently

I'd never heard of it before, but it's great. I must read the book.s

[Mokito]

6. 1984

Mainly because it focuses on the manipulation of information, truth and propaganda and how dissidents are dealt with.
Brave New World is indeed a close second, especially when you interchange Soma and TV.

[Nalgenelover Snort]

7. Brave New World

They've already developed soma-like drugs, and they're vastly overprescribed. And we're getting close to being able to genetically manipulate fetuses for eugenic purposes... American culture reminds me of the vapid people in BNW, who don't even realize they're being controlled and imagine that they have more freedom than ever.

[LynneSin]

8. I voted for 1984 since "The Handmaid's Tale" was not available

:cry:

[solinvictus]

9. A combination of "1984" & "Brave New World"

The sex, sports, and other entertainment serve as a popular distraction from the creeping state totalitarianism, much like contemporary America. People fret more over "Friends", "American Idol" and other crap that doesn't matter while the country has been taken over by corporations.

[Minstrel Boy]

10. 1984. In another 1000 years, it'll be Zardoz.

An elite remnant lording it over barbarians with a technology that's taken for magic.

[blindpig]

11. The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner

Coporatism run amok while the environment collapses. Sound famaliar?
I'll end up a Trainite.
"Stop Killing Me!"