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Any suggestions for a scifi dystopia?

Hi all! Any suggestions for a scifi dystopia? I’ve already read all the “classics”… Thanks!!

Venus #recommend #science fiction

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Jane

Good dystopian…..Charlie Higson’s The Enemy series.

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Polo

Have you read The Broken Earth trilogy?

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Megan

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170404-station-eleven?ac=1&from_search=true

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Megan

The Last One by Alexandra Oliva https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27245997-the-last-one

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Leslie

Station Eleven is really good. I hope she writes a sequel.

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Debra

@Megan I LOVED that one!

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Sandra

@Megan I think about one particular part of The Last One more than any other book I’ve read recently. Really good book!

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Megan

@Sandra To be honest I had to read sections multiple times to really take in what was happening. I thought it was a really clever storyline.

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Sandra

Absolutely! You have to remember what lens (no pun intended) you are watching through.

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Karen

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Stephanie

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334176

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Jacqueline

Fabulous book but I wouldn’t say it’s dystopia

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Stephanie

@Jacqueline yeah, I was trying to decide if it met that part of the request, but figured it was worth throwing out there!

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Jacqueline

@Venus you should read it anyway it’s one of the best SF books I’ve ever read

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Mary

Scythe.

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Linda

… And the sequel Thunderhead but you’ll wait another year for book 3 called The Toll.

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Jacqueline

I’ve just started Dark by Paul Arvidson. It seems promising ( only read a couple of chapters so far) it’s about life on a colony satellite where everything is failing

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Debra

Adding this to my TBR, thank you!

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Jacqueline

OK I’m halfway through now and not sure it is a colony satellite… Getting intriguing…

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Jacqueline

Places in the Darkness by Christopher Brookmyre I just finished. About the mess the planetary colonies are in and the corporations that have taken over Earth, told as a murder mystery

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Connor

Most of Philip K Dick

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Jacqueline

Asimov’s The Caves of Steel…I could go on and on…

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Becky

The Declaration, The Resistance and the Legacy by Gemma Malley (sci-fi dystopian trilogy). Also Matched, Crossed and Reached (the matches series) by Ally Condie. The divergent series by Veronica Roth. Most of the series that spring to my mind are young adult series. For a good standalone sci-fiction dystopian novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is also really good. Moreover The Children of Men by P D James is interesting too.

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Jacqueline

Icarus Down by James Bow – a new civilisation on a new planet going disastrously wrong

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Jacqueline

the End Specialist by Drew Magary about the option of immortality and how it’s messed up everything
I’ll stop now – there are just what I’ve read recently ?

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Randi

Illuminae Files
Enclave Series
Scythe

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Jenny

Outside In by Maria V Snyder

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Tami

The number of the beast by Heinlein? Does anyone really understand how he got to that ending?

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Maudia

Station Eleven,Dog Stars,American War,

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Martha

The Last Policeman

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Jed

If you’re not familiar with William Gibson, might want to have a look. Burning Chrome, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Count Zero, or Neuromancer.

He’s considered by many to be the father of Cyber Punk sci-fi.

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MaryAnn

@Jed neuromancer is amazing

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Jed

@MaryAnn I agree. This was the first of his books I read. It introduced me to an Earth that isn’t run by governments, but multinational corporations. Eerily prescient.

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MaryAnn

@Jed scary. Isn’t it?

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Jed

Too. Definitely dystopian.

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Himanshi

Matched by Ally Condie, Eon (Dragoneye Reborn), Divergent series by Veronica Roth, The Hunger Games

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Sandy

Vox

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Nicole

Company Town

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James

Red Rising

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Jeff

In general Jeremy Robinson has done all kinds of scifi, including quite a bit of post apocalyptic stuff.

The closest to dysopia that come to mind are The Divide or Viking Tomorrow.

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Komet

Check the amazing sci-fi novel “2312” by Kim Stanley Robinson.

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Rachel

The Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey is a really good dystopian trilogy, about a group of people living in a giant silo underground. Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (also a trilogy) is another fantastic one, more bioengineered dystopia as opposed to the religious aspect of her Handmaid’s Tale.

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Sandra

@Rachel Wool! ??

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Syed

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Robin

The Passage trilogy! I recommend it every chance I get, so beautifully written and an unconventional story.

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Renee

@Robin second that!

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Angela

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Susan

Girl with All the Gifts and The Boy on the Bridge by Carey

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Denise

The Windup Girl by Paulo Bacciagalupe (spelling?) is the best dystopian novel I’ve read, and I’ve read a lot. And his book The Water Knife is good,too.

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Bron

@Denise yes!

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Nancy

Alas, Babylon

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Robin

I enjoyed this too!

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Nichole

Arena one series by Morgan rice!!! I read all three in like 2 days! They’re soooo good!!

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Alicia

Following

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Debra

“The Gray” series by Lou Cadle, Passage Trilogy by Justin Cronin, and I love the ‘World Made by Hand’ series by James Kuntsler. Also Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey. Dystopia is my JAM! (Weird, I know.)

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Stacy

Margaret Atwood’s Maddadam trilogy is my favorite

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Debra

Also, (I seem to recommend this one all the time) Seveneves by Neil Stephenson is one of my favorites ever. Sci-Fi dystopia.

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Daphne

Seveneves is wow!!

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Debra

@Daphne I think of this book every time I see a full moon. ?

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Bron

I enjoyed Hugh Howey’s Sand. I thought it was better than his Wool series.

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Bron

Note: it was one of the few books then ended with me going, “…YEAH, BUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?” so I imagine it will be a series too 🙂

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Sandra

@Bron I would LOVE more of Sand!

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Valerie

Nicky Drayden is a new, young voice.

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Beth

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison is soooooo good as is the follow up!

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Denise

There’s a follow-up?? Have you read Red Clocks?

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Beth

@Denise Yes! The Book of Etta!
I’ve not read Red Clocks? Did you like it?

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Denise

@Beth Loved it. A dystopia that could become real the day after tomorrow. Will definitely read the sequel now I know there is one. Thanks!

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Kim

Has anyone mentioned the Unwind series by Neal Shusterman yet? My daughter read the first book to us on a road trip a couple years ago, and it was fantastic. Technically YA, but I loved it!

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Randi

Girl with all the Gifts

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Denise

The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri Tepper. The end is just fantastic!

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Justine

Station Eleven… more of a post pandemic world vs. dystopia, but it’s a good quick read.

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Linda

Station Eleven is such a beautifully written book. Have your read the classic Earth Abides? The first dystopia that inspired so many others

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Beth

This one too!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330761-the-dog-stars

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Jane

Just remembered Jasper Fforde’s Shades of grey, a great book that he’s been promising a sequel to, for years ?

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