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1789638 No.1789638 [Reply] [Original]

Any good dystopian short stories?

Apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, utopian
are all welcome, too.

>> No.1789643

see spot run

>> No.1789645

Somerset Maugham

The Hero

>> No.1789671

The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World

>> No.1789701

The Lord of The World

>> No.1789716

A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison

>>1789671
I want to brofist you so hard.

>> No.1789719

"Knock", by Fredric Brown

>> No.1790476

bump for interest

>> No.1792523

OP's bump

>> No.1792526

Early 20th century short story called The Machine Stops.

Man is the measure.

>> No.1792529

I like I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. Not the best writing, but hey, it's a really good concept.

>> No.1792545

It's anime, but you may want to watch Last Exile.

>> No.1792549

clockwork orange is pretty SHORT

>> No.1792553

Repent, Harlequin! cried (or said?) the ticktockman

is dystopian, although I can't quite remember the title.

>> No.1792556
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1792556

Atlas Shrugged

>> No.1792569

>>1792545
>ask for short stories
>hey watch some anime

Go back to /a/ you scum

>> No.1793770

>>1792553
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Repent,_Harlequin!%22_Said_the_Ticktockman

>> No.1793773

Harrison Bergeron

>> No.1793910

>>1789643
...?

>> No.1795546

last bump

>> No.1795681

>>1795546
bump

>> No.1795694

Harrison Bergeron, The Lottery(think thats what its called, pretty well known one)

>> No.1796034

I have no mouth, and I need to scream

http://web.archive.org/web/20070227202043/http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/
ellison/ellison1.html

>> No.1796038

The Road is short.

>> No.1796043

just about anything from pastoralia by george saunders

>> No.1796103

does anyone have a download link for The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World?

>> No.1796253

It's weird how everybody on lit seems to know Harlan Ellison now. There was a time when that wasn't the case. I approve. Heartily.

>> No.1796256

>>1796253
Oh, I forgot to add my story recommendation: Check out 'Seven American Nights' by Gene Wolfe. Brilliant shit.

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1796261

the chrysalids is a short novel that's pretty good. I can mildly remember reading a few short stories about this topic, but for the life of me I can't recall them clearly.

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1796275

>any good dystopian stories?
>utopian welcome, too.

>> No.1796578

Crap. I had one before about a computer that was simulating life, everyone jacked into it and was so old and bored they entertained themselves with lavish deaths and torture sequences. it was like having a relationship to them letting someone kill you.

title had something to do with butterflies.

>> No.1796585

The King of Dystopic Tales is indisputably "Lord of the Flies".

>> No.1796599

>>1796585
>implying that's not secondary school tier literature
>implying it's not written with the literary subtlety of Spot The Dog
>implying that the kids are nothing more than unbelievable stereotypes
>implying the only merits of the novel don't rest on its shock value

>> No.1796608

>>1796599

sucks to your greentext

>> No.1796675

>>1796599

Something tells me you're now boxing well above your weight young man.

>> No.1796696

>>1796599

>>1796599

You fucking piss-ignorant slave-boy. William Golding won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A cursory glance at the Wikipedia would inform your perky ass that Lord of the Flies was chosen by Time magazine as one of the greatest novels of the last century.

Just because you read it at school doesn't mean you understood it.