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Hi /lit/,

I'm looking for a good dystopia. I've already read the classics (1984, Farenheit 451, Brave New World).

Is pic related any good ? Or would you recommend something else ?

>> No.8528905

>good dystopia
You're looking for an utopia, my friend :^)

>> No.8528910

Ubik is one of PKD's best novels, but it is not a dystopia.

I would rather recommend OP The Penultime Truth by PKD, which is most certainly dystopic.

>> No.8528911

>>8528905
Ah, I see your point here. What I meant was that I'm looking for a good dystopia book :^)

>> No.8528915

>>8528910
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it

>> No.8528930

>>8528910

*Penultimate

>> No.8528952

>>8528911
I'm glad we could clear that up. Have a good day, friend :^)))

>> No.8528956

The Windup Girl

>> No.8528961

>>8528904
John Brunner's The Sheep Look Up. Once you get used to the style it's a solid book.

>> No.8528977

>>8528904
I don't know if it's in english or not, but i'uomo è forte by Corrado Alvaro is pretty good.

>> No.8528990

Thank you all for the suggestion, I will consider all of them.

>> No.8529008

The Piano's Player is a good dystopia novel. It's about how after all labor is taken over. Y machines

>> No.8529028

If you've already read the classics, you should really read their inspiration.

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

>> No.8529035

>>8528904
Darkness at Noon

>> No.8529041

>>8528904
The Handmaiden's Tale

>> No.8529419

>>8529028
+1

We is so good...

>> No.8529486

>>8528904
this is his only good book and my fuck is it ever better than the rest of his books. it's super funny right from the get go and its well paced, somewhat action packed and an ultra mindfuck. I read it when I was in highschool and it's one of those books that I can recall everything that happened even 10 years later. kek when he pulls out the coin with runciter(sp) on it.

>> No.8529512

War of the Worlds...sort of?
I am legend

>> No.8529525

We is not a great book btw, albeit influential

>> No.8530174

>>8528904
UBIK is not dystopia themed novel. But it's the best sci-fi novel ever written on the earth.

>> No.8530190
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8530190

>>8528904
just finished 1984 now I'm dead inside

>> No.8530499

" Do androids dream of electric sheeps" and "The city and the stars" by Clarke are good but somewhat "alternative" dystopic novels.Also I suggest the comic V for Vendetta

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8530540

got you pham

>> No.8530561

>>8529525

I liked it better than 1984 desu
About on par with BNW

>> No.8530579

>>8528904

Aside from We >>8529028 and Darkness at Noon >>8529035, which is what you're looking for and what you must read, also look into some other worthy earlier ones:
-E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops
-Jack London, The Iron Heel