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
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
Fahrenheit 4511269 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
  
  











  



  
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 ...
  
  











  



  
Stand on Zanzibar40 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 ...
  
  











  



  
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 ...
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
Brave New World729 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
  
  











  



  
A Clockwork Orange619 reviews
Anthony Burgess

W. W. Norton & Company, 1986

Fantastic, yet complicated

+ Fantastic novel
+ A Clockwork Orange
+ Good but have to work to get into
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
The Sheep Look Up32 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
  
  











  



  
The Sheep Look Up32 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
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
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 ...
  
  











  



  
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 ...
  
  











  



  
Stand on Zanzibar40 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 ...
  
  











  



  
Fahrenheit 4511269 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
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
Brave New World729 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
  
  











  



  
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