Which of these dystopian novels is your favorite?
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Topic: Which of these dystopian novels is your favorite?
Posted By: BaldFriede
Subject: Which of these dystopian novels is your favorite?
Date Posted: February 17 2021 at 11:09
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Choose between these five novels. I deliberately left out "1984", "Brave New World", "Fahrenheit 451" and "A Clockwork Orange". -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: February 17 2021 at 11:20
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 17 2021 at 12:01
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I am actually pretty certain the Strugatski brothers, Zamatin and Lem won't get many votes (if any at all). Who reads Russian or Polish authors? ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Tancos
Date Posted: February 17 2021 at 12:29
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: February 17 2021 at 12:45
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BaldFriede wrote:Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 17 2021 at 13:12
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I voted for Lem. Who says a dystopian novel can't be funny? ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: February 17 2021 at 14:40
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Phillip K. Dick - Man in the High Castle (from this list) P.D. James - The Children of Men and Cormac McCarthy - The Road are a couple of other favorites that also pop into my mind. ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 17 2021 at 16:17
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OF this list I've only read We and THT. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: February 17 2021 at 17:48
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PKD.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 18 2021 at 18:42
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I love PKD and Vonnegut, but I went with We. With Atwood I do highly recommend Oryx and Crake for those who haven't read it.. As for The Road, it's such a great post-apocalyptic novel. One that I thought might be on the list is Never Let Me Go (Blindness is related). A Canticle for Leibowitz is one I liked very much. One I've been wanting to read is The City & the City by China Miéville. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I observed before. It can be much like that with music for me; immersed in experiencing the moment. |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: February 18 2021 at 23:57
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Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale. Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle. Both of theses are incredible but TMITHC is the ultimate one for today’s vote! ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 19 2021 at 02:36
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I am very surprised there is not more love for "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub". It is in my opinion one of the most brilliant works of Stanisław Lem (who in my opinion is the greatest SF-writer period). No-one trusts anyone, and the poor new agent trying to find out what his mission is ( "Verify. Search. Destroy. Incite. Inform. Over and out. On the nth day nth hour sector n subsector n rendezvous with N.") gets more and more desperate. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: February 19 2021 at 02:54
Can't really vote since I haven't read these (although I think I have a copy of We), but Philip K. Dick would be the highest on my to-read list. I've read a lot of him, not yet this one -- maybe because the cover art of the Finnish translation is ugly: a hamburger with tiny Japanese and German flags on it.  I also have liked many novels of Stanislaw Lem and a couple ones of brothers Strugatski, but I don't think the mentioned ones have been translated into Finnish -- too bad! As much as I appreciate Atwood, I probably won't read The Handmaid's Tale, already familiar from a film and a TV series (which I haven't been watching full-time). But if the question was "Which one you consider the most significant", I'd say this.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 15:06
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PKDick -Man ...but the only other one from that list I read was Memoirs -Lem.......both many years ago. I was into a Lem thing about 30 years ago and PK Dick from even earlier...read most of their work. I rate Memoirs and Man about the same; both are very good. The Investigation by Lem is one of my favorite 'mystery' novels of all time. I have read it 3 times .
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 15:27
"Chain of Chance" (original Polish title "Katar" meaning "catarrh") is an even better mystery novel by Lem. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 15:45
Like that one also....I still have paper back copies of both . The Investigation was weird in an occult manner so it intrigued me a bit more. Also have/read : Solaris Return From The Stars Futurological Congress His Masters Voice Fiasco ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 16:21
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