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What should I read after the Big 4 of Dystopian books?
I already finished 3 of the big 4, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and Animal Farm, and I'm about to read 1984 soon. My thoughts on what I read so far

Brave New World: Genuinely disturbed me and I still think about that damn ending to this day. That feeling when no one wants to listen to you and they give into their own excess manufactured by the government stuck with me.

Fahrenheit 451: Eerily close to reality with how it shows the destruction of books in favor of creating a safe and anti intellectual world. I got bittersweet feelings from the conclusion.

Animal Farm: Aside from being an allegory for the Russian Revolution, Animal Farm is also a cautionary tale on the abuse of power, and how terrible people with great power can lead to destruction of freedom and dignity.

So yeah, those are my brief thoughts. But I'm actually curious what to read after those and 1984. What could be relevant in this day and age? What dangers am I missing? And most importantly, what more dire but valuable lessons could I learn?

I do have my eyes on The Giver, even if it's YA

Any recommendation will do!
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- "tender is the flesh" by agustina bazterrica. one of my favourite dystopian novels. a virus contaminates all animal meat, so human cannibalism becomes legal.

- "womb city" by tlotlo tsamaase is one i read recently. cyberpunk dystopian novel, very bleak.

- "the stand" by stephen king is a fusion of dark fantasy, post apocalypse and dystopian genres. one of his magnum opus novels, its about clashing factions in a world that was ravaged by disease.

- "pink slime" by fernanda trías, read this one last year. in a dystopian city a corporation produces the only food anyone can afford, a mysterious pink slime.
thought "Moby ♥♥♥♥" would be a big 4
$2 Hero 7 Aug @ 12:46pm 
The Turner Diaries
Prinny 7 Aug @ 12:50pm 
Make Room, Make Room.
We.
The Running Man.
The Giver.
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

Children of Men, by P.D. James
P.K. D_ck's work, and Heinlein.
Watch Futurama.
A scanner Darkly.

Its partially about modern society and the failures of the drug addicted, and the ones who make it possible behind the scenes.
Huxley, Orwell and Bradbury all have other good books too.
Brma 7 Aug @ 2:47pm 
Originally posted by His Majesty's strawberry cart:
thought "Moby ♥♥♥♥" would be a big 4
Worst book ever. Sure, go on for 28 pages about the difference between a sperm whale and beaked whale or whatver.
Originally posted by Brma:
Originally posted by His Majesty's strawberry cart:
thought "Moby ♥♥♥♥" would be a big 4
Worst book ever. Sure, go on for 28 pages about the difference between a sperm whale and beaked whale or whatver.
yah maybe doesn't hit that dystopian resonance then
Forever War
something soft and intelligent, like braiding sweetgrass
how about reading something fun and whimsical, like a discworld book
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