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
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
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.
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 ?
@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.
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.
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.
“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.)
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!
Good dystopian…..Charlie Higson’s The Enemy series.
Have you read The Broken Earth trilogy?
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170404-station-eleven?ac=1&from_search=true
The Last One by Alexandra Oliva https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27245997-the-last-one
Station Eleven is really good. I hope she writes a sequel.
@Megan I LOVED that one!
@Megan I think about one particular part of The Last One more than any other book I’ve read recently. Really good book!
@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.
Absolutely! You have to remember what lens (no pun intended) you are watching through.
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334176
Fabulous book but I wouldn’t say it’s dystopia
@Jacqueline yeah, I was trying to decide if it met that part of the request, but figured it was worth throwing out there!
@Venus you should read it anyway it’s one of the best SF books I’ve ever read
Scythe.
… And the sequel Thunderhead but you’ll wait another year for book 3 called The Toll.
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
Adding this to my TBR, thank you!
OK I’m halfway through now and not sure it is a colony satellite… Getting intriguing…
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
Most of Philip K Dick
Asimov’s The Caves of Steel…I could go on and on…
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.
Icarus Down by James Bow – a new civilisation on a new planet going disastrously wrong
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 ?
Illuminae Files
Enclave Series
Scythe
Outside In by Maria V Snyder
The number of the beast by Heinlein? Does anyone really understand how he got to that ending?
Station Eleven,Dog Stars,American War,
The Last Policeman
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.
@Jed neuromancer is amazing
@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.
@Jed scary. Isn’t it?
Too. Definitely dystopian.
Matched by Ally Condie, Eon (Dragoneye Reborn), Divergent series by Veronica Roth, The Hunger Games
Vox
Company Town
Red Rising
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.
Check the amazing sci-fi novel “2312” by Kim Stanley Robinson.
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.
@Rachel Wool! ??
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Passage trilogy! I recommend it every chance I get, so beautifully written and an unconventional story.
@Robin second that!
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Girl with All the Gifts and The Boy on the Bridge by Carey
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.
@Denise yes!
Alas, Babylon
I enjoyed this too!
Arena one series by Morgan rice!!! I read all three in like 2 days! They’re soooo good!!
Following
“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.)
Margaret Atwood’s Maddadam trilogy is my favorite
Also, (I seem to recommend this one all the time) Seveneves by Neil Stephenson is one of my favorites ever. Sci-Fi dystopia.
Seveneves is wow!!
@Daphne I think of this book every time I see a full moon. ?
I enjoyed Hugh Howey’s Sand. I thought it was better than his Wool series.
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 🙂
@Bron I would LOVE more of Sand!
Nicky Drayden is a new, young voice.
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison is soooooo good as is the follow up!
There’s a follow-up?? Have you read Red Clocks?
@Denise Yes! The Book of Etta!
I’ve not read Red Clocks? Did you like it?
@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!
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!
Girl with all the Gifts
The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri Tepper. The end is just fantastic!
Station Eleven… more of a post pandemic world vs. dystopia, but it’s a good quick read.
Station Eleven is such a beautifully written book. Have your read the classic Earth Abides? The first dystopia that inspired so many others
This one too!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330761-the-dog-stars
Just remembered Jasper Fforde’s Shades of grey, a great book that he’s been promising a sequel to, for years ?