{"id":573,"date":"2016-03-26T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/2016\/03\/26\/dystopian-novels\/"},"modified":"2016-03-26T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T15:22:00","slug":"dystopian-novels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/2016\/03\/26\/dystopian-novels-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dystopian Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">The following are a list of dystopian novels. By no means is it comprehensive, but I believe it covers the major ones that need to be read at least to understand the evolution and present state of dystopia. There&#8217;s a point at which they all begun to run together, where you&#8217;ve read so many of them that you notice how worn out the cliches are, but I&#8217;ve even included some of the poorer rip-offs of traditional dystopia.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1891 &#8211; The New Utopia by Jerome K. Jerome<\/li>\n<li>1908 &#8211; The Iron Heel by Jack London (said to be the first dystopian novel of the modern era)<\/li>\n<li>1907 &#8211; Lord of the World by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson<\/li>\n<li>1923 or 1924 &#8211; Love in the Fog of the Future by Andrei Marsov<\/li>\n<li>1924 &#8211; We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (some say this is the grandfather of dystopian novels)<\/li>\n<li>1938 &#8211; Anthem by Ayn Rand<\/li>\n<li>1895 &#8211; The Time Machine by H. G. Wells<\/li>\n<li>1898\/1910 &#8211; (When) The Sleeper Awakes by H. G. Wells<\/li>\n<li>1940 &#8211; Kallocain&nbsp;by Karin Boye<\/li>\n<li>1949 &#8211; Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell<\/li>\n<li>1931 &#8211; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley<\/li>\n<li>1952 &#8211; Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut<\/li>\n<li>1953 &#8211; Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury<\/li>\n<li>1953 &#8211; One by David Karp<\/li>\n<li>1961 &#8211; Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut<\/li>\n<li>1962 &#8211; A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess<\/li>\n<li>1967 &#8211; Logan&#8217;s Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson<\/li>\n<li>1967 &#8211; Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip Jose Farmer<\/li>\n<li>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<p>1970 &#8211; This Perfect Day by Ira Levin<\/li>\n<li>1976 &#8211; Don&#8217;t Bite the Sun by Tanith Lee<\/li>\n<li>1979 &#8211; The Long Walk by Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)<\/li>\n<li>1982 &#8211; The Running Man by Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)<\/li>\n<li>1985 &#8211; The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale by Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n<li>1993 &#8211; The Giver by Lois Lowry<\/li>\n<li>1993 &#8211; The Punishment of Luxury by Michael Carson<\/li>\n<li>1994 &#8211; Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias edited by Kim Stanley Robinson (a collection with dystopian short stories)<\/li>\n<li>1999 &#8211; Battle Royale by Koushun Takami<\/li>\n<li>2002 &#8211; Feed by M. T. Anderson<\/li>\n<li>2003 &#8211; Jennifer Government by Max Barry<\/li>\n<li>2008 &#8211; The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins<\/li>\n<li>2009 &#8211; The Maze Runner by James Dashner<\/li>\n<li>2010 &#8211; Matched by Ally Condie<\/li>\n<li>2011 &#8211; Divergent by Veronica Roth<\/li>\n<li>2005 &#8211; The Uglies by Scott Westerfield<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I do find it kind of funny to note how many of the earlier dystopian novels\/stories are written by Russians or Socialists. Can we gather anything from that? Maybe, maybe not,<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are a list of dystopian novels. By no means is it comprehensive, but I believe it covers the major ones that need to be read at least to understand the evolution and present state of dystopia. 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