I’m nearly finished rereading 1984 and my appetite for dystopian books is whetted. What are some other great ones I should check out?
I’m nearly finished rereading 1984 and my appetite for dystopian books is whetted. What are some other great ones I should check out?
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
it’s a demanding read, but one of the absolute best.
Nope.
Ayn Rand makes me want to call Sargeant Beatty to douse some petrol.
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.
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.