Comments on Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction - page 3
Comments Showing 101-150 of 212 (212 new)
![Michael](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1327369382p1/7513588.jpg)
![Bev Spires](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1452930591p1/12844879.jpg)
I love the Foundation books but I'm not sure they qualify as post apocalyptic or dystopian , they're more science fiction possible future tales...Although, I could see an argument being made for the empire and Seldon era Trantor being a dystopian society.
![Trisha](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1534552057p1/14082762.jpg)
Since I am a goodreads librarian, I've decided to remedy this and delete books that do not belong. This list will strictly include dystopian societies.
Dystopian books should fit the following criteria:
"Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. Elements of dystopias may vary from environmental to political and social issues."
This definition was taken from Ian's comment:
"A dystopia is a society in a repressive controlled state, kept there through various forms of coercion and often masquerading as a utopia. Police states, caste systems, restricted sense of individuality, repression of invention, abolishment of the family, and technological limitations are a few elements commonly found in dystopian fiction."
Any books deemed unfit will be removed.
I have not read all these books so If there are any books that I have missed, please don't hesitate to reply to this comment and cite which books I should check out and if they do not belong in this list then they shall be removed immediately.
![Elena](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1325702508p1/3447741.jpg)
There are at least three
![Ti](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1359989544p1/1753677.jpg)
![Joe Noir](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1358100499p1/16399833.jpg)
![Don Parkhurst](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1373735254p1/22173431.jpg)
![Cindy](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1672559463p1/339857.jpg)
![Joanna](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1379618098p1/24080814.jpg)
![Lushr](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1403383250p1/11296286.jpg)
![Ged](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1308912744p1/5680172.jpg)
Do androids dream of electric sheep? is there. Have you looked through all the list? (pages link at bottom).
![James Taylor](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1384888584p1/25828552.jpg)
Number 24 on the list. Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep is the novel that BladeRunner was based on.
![James Taylor](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1384888584p1/25828552.jpg)
Close, Camazotz :)
![James Taylor](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1384888584p1/25828552.jpg)
I wish someone could illuminate me."
Because of its surreal elements and the way in which it does bend the bo..."
So then Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas should be on this list by those criteria. People should understand what "Distopian" and "Post Apocalyptic" mean before adding things to the list.
DYSTOPIA (dystopic): An imagined universe (usually the future of our own world) in which a worst-case scenario is explored; the opposite of utopia. Dystopic stories have been especially influential on postmodernism, as writers and film-makers imagine the effects of various aspects of our current postmodern condition, for example, the world's take-over by machines (The Matrix); the social effects of the hyperreal (Neuromancer); a society completely run by media commercialism (The Running Man); the triumph of late capitalism (Blade Runner); bureaucratic control run amok (Brazil, 1984); and so on.
POST-APOCALYPTIC: A work of fiction may be considered post-Apocalyptic when its setting or plot features a world in which civilization as we (or the characters) know it has ceased to exist. Many of these stories are set in a near, often dystopian future, or in alternate realities.
Although the term Apocalypse has its origin in Christian religion and refers to a Revelation made by God, over time the definition of the word has expanded, and may now also indicate a more secular end to an age or era such as by plague or war, or the End of Times as foretold in other religions.
The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mocking Jay are great examples of Post Apocalyptic Fiction. As are The Stand, Out of the Ashes, and Jericho.
![Danny Tyran](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1515776302p1/12973215.jpg)
There are people who don't see dystopia as I see it. :)
![Jacob](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1589905200p1/15628458.jpg)
![Jacob](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1589905200p1/15628458.jpg)
amen"
I saw something recently, and it was an interview with Stepheny Meyer, she said "I just felt that the gods of writing were calling me to write the Twilight books"
Then there were pictures of J.K. Rowling, Orson Scott Card, and J. R. R. Tolkien talking in a circle, they all were going around saying "Did you tell anyone to write that?" and "I didn't tell anyone those!"
Then the last picture was one where it was darker, and a they had kind-of creepy pictures of each of the three, and they said "WE ARE IN CONSENSUS! WE SENT NO ONE!!"
![Jacob](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1589905200p1/15628458.jpg)
![Andrea Leoni](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1353862283p1/14898190.jpg)
![Danny Tyran](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1515776302p1/12973215.jpg)
I agree with you. Hunger Games is more a teen story. Not at the same level than the other authors you listed. But at least, this is not the Bible nor The Republic by Plato, which are in this list.
![Stop33](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1402697861p1/27560618.jpg)
![Andrea Leoni](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1353862283p1/14898190.jpg)
![Lushr](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1403383250p1/11296286.jpg)
![Andrew Obrigewitsch](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1512627613p1/16087568.jpg)
And The Hunger Games is not the best, even though it's on the top of every damn list on this site. It's not even the best YA book ever written, in fact it's just a rewrite of a Stephen King book.
![Danny Tyran](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1515776302p1/12973215.jpg)
And The Hunger Games is not the best, ever though it's on the top of every damn list on this ..."
Hunger Games is the first on this list probably just because the guy/girl who created the list put it there first. That doesn't mean that it's the best or the favorite. Happily, there are other people who added books who have a sounder judgment than him/her.
![Hi](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1416421261p1/28608358.jpg)
![Danny Tyran](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1515776302p1/12973215.jpg)
Here is a list of utopian novels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category...
Note that except
![Island by Aldous Huxley](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1375947541s/5130.jpg)
![Aldous Huxley](https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1387374697p2/3487.jpg)
![Bryn D](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1693108015p1/3552395.jpg)
![Danny Tyran](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1515776302p1/12973215.jpg)
I don't know why people vote if they don't even know what is the list's subject. I've seen on another list "The Fiction of the Best 20th century
" Shakespeare's books, Dante's Hell, and so on. Can't they open their eyes?!!
![Daniel](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1681758454p1/10027578.jpg)
What about, you know, More's Utopia?
![Danny Tyran](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1515776302p1/12973215.jpg)
What about, you know, More's Utopia?"
Yeah, why not? Even though More considered slavery as part of his Utopia.
![Petergiaquinta](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1304003529p1/4159895.jpg)
What about, you know, More's Utopia?"
And how about Aldous Huxley's Island?
![Daniel](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1681758454p1/10027578.jpg)
What about, you know, More's Utopia?"
Yeah, why not? Even though More considered slavery ..."
Yeah, I'm not saying I'd like to live in it haha (nor in Bacon's New Atlantis/Campanella's City of the Sun, for that matter).
![Sarah](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1612196939p1/23079142.jpg)
The Amber Spyglass
The Lost Hero
The Subtle Knife
The Name of the Wind
Mort
Elsewhere
The Graveyard Book
Clockwork Prince
The Pern and Harper Hall books
City of Bones
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flammel
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
White Cat
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Fablehaven
Running Out of Time
Of Mice and Men
Wizard's First Rule
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
Wings
The Lightning Thief
A Lord of the Rings tie-in book
A Shannara book
Catch-22
Coraline
I'm uncertain about whether these fit or not:
Jurassic Park
Magic Bites
The Doomsday Book
Witch & Wizard
Mistborn
Good Omens
Peeps
Treason, The Worthing Saga, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
![Danny Tyran](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1515776302p1/12973215.jpg)
Good!
Jurassic Parc don't fit the list for sure.
The Doomsday Book could fit, it depends which one it is. There is about a million books with that title.
Good Omens is more a British humor book about the end of time. This is not "post" apocalyptic, since everybody in the book tried to stop Armageddon. It has not still happened.
Witch & Wizard could fit, but not Found, that is more a time-travelers story, than anything else.
For the others, I don't know.
![Sarah](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1612196939p1/23079142.jpg)
Good!
Jurassic Parc don't fit the list for sure.
The Doomsday Book could fit, it depends which one it is. There is about a million books wit..."
Sorry, it's The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.
I'll remove Jurassic Park, Good Omens, and Found then.
![Sarah](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1612196939p1/23079142.jpg)
Jurassic Park
Good Omens
Found
The Pit Dragon Chronicles
Everlost
A World Without Heroes by Brandon Mull
I also ran into a few more that I'm unsure about:
Frankenstein
The Dream Cycle of HP Lovecraft
Robots and Empire by Asimov
![Danny Tyran](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1515776302p1/12973215.jpg)
Jurassic Park
Good Omens
Found
The Pit Dragon Chronicles
Everlost
A World Without Heroes by Brandon Mull
I also ran into a few more th..."
Is it THE Frankenstein?
![Frankenstein by Mary Shelley](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1381512375s/18490.jpg)
If it is this one, it doesn't fit at all.
Robots and Empire... If it's the book 4 of the Robots series, it's about about the decline and fall of Solaria. Solaria is how Asimov call our solar system. So it could do.
For the Dream Cycle, there is over 20 short stories in the book. I asked someone if one of them was dystopian or post-apocalyptic, but I've no answer yet.
![Danny Tyran](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1515776302p1/12973215.jpg)
Here is the answer I got:
"Not particularly, most all the stories are fantasy/horror or occur in ~1920's time period. Nothing really like an apocalypse. "
![Sarah](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1612196939p1/23079142.jpg)
Jurassic Park
Good Omens
Found
The Pit Dragon Chronicles
Everlost
A World Without Heroes by Brandon Mull
I also ran ..."
Yep, it's THE Frankenstein. I'll remove if it and The Dream Cycle if I can track it down in the list (things tend to get shifted around).
![Luis](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1713921513p1/31564595.jpg)
The Orb of Truth by Brae Wyckoff is an epic fantasy.
thank you!