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The Iron Heel (Penguin Classics) 7 reviews Jack London
Penguin Classics, 2006
gripping
+ An intense blend of dystopian fiction and spy novel! + A look at the future from 1908 + the last 25 pages
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We (Modern Library Classics) 14 reviews Yevgeny Zamyatin
Modern Library, 2006
Primo
+ Good, but... + The Original Dystopian Novel of the 20th Century + I is We... + Literary Masterpiece, Thought Provoking
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Fahrenheit 451 1269 reviews Ray Bradbury
Del Rey, 1987
A thrilling combination of 50's pulp sci-fi and reflective commentary
+ Fahrenheit 451: A Novel + a very good book + Timely, thought-provoking, and still hopeful
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Neuromancer (Ace Science Fiction) 452 reviews William Gibson
Ace Trade, 2000
Still Good After All These Years
+ If Only Gibson Had Continued With This Story... + Lives up to the hype
I first read Gibson's "Neuromancer" when it first came out (about 24 years ago) and really enjoyed it. I just finished reading it again, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it's weathered the intervening decades very well. This book created a genre by envisioning a wired world when, at the ...
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Stand on Zanzibar 40 reviews John Brunner
Gollancz, 1999
Fun, futuristic speculation from the late 1960's
+ Not Free SF Reader
This big, sprawling novel is essentially a sci-fi spy thriller, but the real star of the show is the whacky world of the future in which the whole story takes place. Written in the late `60's, Brunner employs lots of technical fireworks to bring that future world to life. Many readers will find ...
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The Gold Coast: Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych) 12 reviews Kim Stanley Robinson
Orb Books, 1995
Prescient vision of a militarized society
+ More Morality Tale than Imaginative Fiction
Southern California sex, designer drugs, malls, and corruption are all here, but the eerie part of KSR's dystopian vision goes beyond materialism. In this novel, the US is engaged in several simultaneous small wars around the globe and gags the media to keep images of American casualties from the ...
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It Can't Happen Here (Signet Classics) 43 reviews Sinclair Lewis
Signet Classics, 2005
Another Script for America's Power Elites
+ It Can't Happen Here + A must read: It CAN happen here. + Be Careful What You Wish For... + So this is how democracy dies...with thunderous applause
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Brave New World 729 reviews Aldous Huxley
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1998
Open the book and open your eyes
+ This book is more enjoyable with some soma! + Frighteningly Prophetic + Dystopia, i long for thee + Good Book
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A Clockwork Orange 619 reviews Anthony Burgess
W. W. Norton & Company, 1986
Fantastic, yet complicated
+ Fantastic novel + A Clockwork Orange + Good but have to work to get into
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1984 (Signet Classics) 1373 reviews George Orwell
New American Library, 1961
A Warning, A Prediction...A Terrifying Truth
+ Ninteen-Eighty-Four: Still a Classic + Perfectly Horrific + Still Relevant + Timeless classic on the dangers of communism/big government
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The Sheep Look Up 32 reviews John Brunner
Benbella Books, 2003
The Top 5 of the Scariest Books I Have Ever Read
+ fantabulous book, a must read for modern times + Unpolished story of an unpolished earth + A must for monkeywrenchers
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The Sheep Look Up 32 reviews John Brunner
Benbella Books, 2003
The Top 5 of the Scariest Books I Have Ever Read
+ fantabulous book, a must read for modern times + Unpolished story of an unpolished earth + A must for monkeywrenchers
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It Can't Happen Here (Signet Classics) 43 reviews Sinclair Lewis
Signet Classics, 2005
Another Script for America's Power Elites
+ It Can't Happen Here + A must read: It CAN happen here. + Be Careful What You Wish For... + So this is how democracy dies...with thunderous applause
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The Gold Coast: Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych) 12 reviews Kim Stanley Robinson
Orb Books, 1995
Prescient vision of a militarized society
+ More Morality Tale than Imaginative Fiction
Southern California sex, designer drugs, malls, and corruption are all here, but the eerie part of KSR's dystopian vision goes beyond materialism. In this novel, the US is engaged in several simultaneous small wars around the globe and gags the media to keep images of American casualties from the ...
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Neuromancer (Ace Science Fiction) 452 reviews William Gibson
Ace Trade, 2000
Still Good After All These Years
+ If Only Gibson Had Continued With This Story... + Lives up to the hype
I first read Gibson's "Neuromancer" when it first came out (about 24 years ago) and really enjoyed it. I just finished reading it again, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it's weathered the intervening decades very well. This book created a genre by envisioning a wired world when, at the ...
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Stand on Zanzibar 40 reviews John Brunner
Gollancz, 1999
Fun, futuristic speculation from the late 1960's
+ Not Free SF Reader
This big, sprawling novel is essentially a sci-fi spy thriller, but the real star of the show is the whacky world of the future in which the whole story takes place. Written in the late `60's, Brunner employs lots of technical fireworks to bring that future world to life. Many readers will find ...
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Fahrenheit 451 1269 reviews Ray Bradbury
Del Rey, 1987
A thrilling combination of 50's pulp sci-fi and reflective commentary
+ Fahrenheit 451: A Novel + a very good book + Timely, thought-provoking, and still hopeful
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We (Modern Library Classics) 14 reviews Yevgeny Zamyatin
Modern Library, 2006
Primo
+ Good, but... + The Original Dystopian Novel of the 20th Century + I is We... + Literary Masterpiece, Thought Provoking
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Brave New World 729 reviews Aldous Huxley
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1998
Open the book and open your eyes
+ This book is more enjoyable with some soma! + Frighteningly Prophetic + Dystopia, i long for thee + Good Book
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1984 (Signet Classics) 1373 reviews George Orwell
New American Library, 1961
A Warning, A Prediction...A Terrifying Truth
+ Ninteen-Eighty-Four: Still a Classic + Perfectly Horrific + Still Relevant + Timeless classic on the dangers of communism/big government
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