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Hey! Good to see you on this board! rebelaessedai Send a noteboard - 08/09/2009 08:03:04 PM

Tough choice as I like quite a few of them. I think I'll go with The Forever War, even if it's a wee bit dated now. Voyage is a close second but it's almost more utopian than dystopian. Actually, techically, it's sort of a utopian collides with dystopian story, really, where the 'dystopian' is very much our own society!

There are a few of those I haven't seen before. I'm assuming Forever War isn't the Haldeman book that came out last year/ year before, right?


Anthem. Exceedingly pretentious and made no bones about it.

Huh. I don't know... I was in high school when I read this one. As you say, hard to really understand your opinions from then.


1984. While it is dated, and really not terribly believeable on some levels, the fact that some people would actually try things on that level is creepy. I've even seen people trying to do the whole 'newspeak' thing and it makes me want to punch them out, to be honest.

*nods* So you do agree with Paul that 1984 was creepier than A Handmaid's Tale?


Not really. Most dystopian novels go too over the top for me to get really bugged. The base assumptions fail to completely engage my suspension of disbelief, so I don't find them overly disturbing. 1984 came the closest and that may have had to do with when I read it. I've re-read other books that I read during that time of my life and laughed really hard at how much effect they had on me as an atavistic teen and how little effect they have on me as an adult.


Indeed. :D I have to say, though, that certain aspects of dystopian literature bother me- not necessarily all the freedoms, but a few of them, such as "excision of the imagination" or "getting rid of sexual need". ;)
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