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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick first published in 1968. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter of androids, while the secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal...
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- 1968
The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle (1962), by Philip K. Dick, is a science fiction novel of the alternative history sub-genre. The novel won a Hugo Award in 1963 and has since been translated into many languages.
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- Jan 1, 1962
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
For the lead singer of the band The Sisters of Mercy, see Andrew Eldritch.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1965 novel by American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965.
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- 1965
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick about a genetically enhanced pop singer and television star who loses his identity overnight. The story is set in a futuristic dystopia, where America has become a...
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- 1974
A Scanner Darkly
A Scanner Darkly is a BSFA Award winning 1977 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The semi-autobiographical story is set in a dystopian Orange County, California in the then-future of June 1994. It includes an extensive portrayal of drug...
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- 1977
The Space Merchants
The Space Merchants is a science fiction novel by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth that was first published in book form in 1953 (having been a Galaxy Science Fiction magazine serial entitled Gravy Planet in 1952).
The book is widely regarded as...
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- 1953
Among the Hidden
Among the Hidden is a 1998 young adult novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix concerning a fictional future in which drastic measures have been taken to quell overpopulation. It is the first of seven novels in the Shadow Children series.
In the far...
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Oryx and Crake
Oryx and Crake is a dystopian science fiction novel by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Atwood has at times disputed the novel being science fiction, preferring to label it speculative fiction and "adventure romance" because it does not deal...
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V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta is a novelization of the film of the same name. The novel was written by comic writer Steve Moore, who adapted it from the screenplay (by the Wachowski brothers) based on a graphic novel, V for Vendetta, which was written by Alan...
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- Jan 31, 2006
Uglies
Uglies is a 2005 science fiction novel by Scott Westerfeld. Set in a future post-scarcity dystopian world in which everyone is turned "Pretty" by extreme cosmetic surgery upon reaching age 16. It tells the story of teenager Tally Youngblood who...
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- Feb 8, 2005
Brave New World
Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society....
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel authored by Ray Bradbury and first published in 1951.
The novel presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic, and critical thought through reading is outlawed. The central character, Guy...
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Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Sower is the first in a two-book series of science fiction novels written by Octavia E. Butler and published in 1993.
Set in a dystopian future, Parable of the Sower centers on a young woman who possesses what Butler dubbed as...
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- 1993
Acidity
Acidity is a dystopian cyber novelette written by eccentric Pakistani journalist and writer, Nadeem F. Paracha. Written exclusively for the website www.chowk.com in 2003, it has gone on to become a controversial cult favorite among many young...
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- 2003
Make Room! Make Room!
Make Room! Make Room! is a 1966 science fiction novel written by Harry Harrison exploring the consequences of unchecked population growth on society. The novel was the basis of the 1973 science fiction movie Soylent Green, although the movie changed...
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- 1966
When Heaven Fell
When Heaven Fell is a 1995 military science fiction novel by William Barton.
Human mercenary Athol Morrison returns to Earth after serving in the legions of the Master Race. It’s been 20 years, and his friends, and Earth, have changed.
Earth has...
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- Mar 1, 1995
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is a feminist dystopian novel, a work of science fiction or speculative fiction, written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. Set in the near future, in a totalitarian...
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- 1985
Neuromancer
Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, notable for being the most famous early cyberpunk novel and winner of the science-fiction "triple crown"—the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was Gibson's first novel and...
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- Jul 1, 1984
The Time Machine
The Time Machine is a novella by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 and later directly adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly...
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- 1895
Count Zero
Count Zero is a science fiction novel written by William Gibson, originally published in 1986. It is the middle volume of the Sprawl trilogy, which includes Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive, and is a prime example of the cyberpunk...
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A Planet for the President
A Planet for the President (2004) is a novel by Alistair Beaton. Set in the not-too-distant future, it satirically ponders the question of what action the President of the United States might take if he finally realized that global climate change is...
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- Sep 30, 2004
Radio Free Albemuth
Radio Free Albemuth is a novel by Philip K. Dick, written in 1976 and published posthumously in 1985. Originally titled VALISystem A, it was his first attempt to deal in fiction with his experiences of early 1974. When his publishers at Bantam...
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- 1985
Anthem
Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of the evils of irrationality and collectivism and the weaknesses of...
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- 1938
The Giver
The Giver is a 1993 soft science fiction novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian; therefore, it could be considered anti-utopian. The novel...
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- 1993
We
We (Russian: Мы) is a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin completed in 1921. It was written in response to the author's personal experiences during the Russian revolution of 1905, the Russian revolution of 1917, his life in the Newcastle suburb of...
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Kazohinia
Kazohinia is a novel written (1935-1957) in Esperanto and again in Hungarian (1941, 1946?, 1957, 1972) by Sándor Szathmári. It appeared first in Hungarian and was later published in Esperanto by SAT (Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda) in 1958, and was...
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The Running Man
The Running Man is a science fiction novel by Stephen King, first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982 as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books. The novel is set in a dystopian...
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Among the Enemy
Among the Enemy is a 2005 novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix, about a time in which drastic measures have been taken to quell overpopulation. It is the sixth of seven novels in the Shadow Children series.
The general plot revolves around an...
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- Jun 2005
I Am Legend
I Am Legend is a 1954 science fiction/horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson. It was influential in the development of the vampire genre as well as the zombie genre, in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease, and...
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- 1954
Jennifer Government
Jennifer Government is a novel written by Max Barry. Published in 2003, it is Barry's second novel, following 1999's Syrup. The novel is set in a dystopian alternate reality in which most nations (now controlled by the United States) are dominated...
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- Jan 21, 2003
The Iron Heel
The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.
Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the...
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- 1908
The Baby Squad
The Baby Squad is a dystopian thriller by Andrew Neiderman first published in 2003. Set in the United States in the not-too-distant future, the novel envisages a future American society where giving birth to children is illegal and where only few...
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- Aug 2003
Time out of Joint
Time Out of Joint is a novel by Philip K. Dick, first published in novel form in the United States in 1959. An abridged version was also serialised in the British science fiction magazine New Worlds Science Fiction in several installments from...
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- 1959
Return from the Stars
Return from the Stars (Polish: Powrót z gwiazd) is one of the better known science fiction novels of Stanisław Lem, the most famous Polish science-fiction author. Written in 1961, it revolves around the story of a cosmonaut returning to his...
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- 1961
Logan's Run
Logan's Run is a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Published in 1967, it depicts a dystopian future society in which population and the consumption of resources is managed and maintained in equilibrium by the simple expedient of...
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- 1967
Gathering Blue
Gathering Blue is a 2000 children's dystopian novel by noted children's author Lois Lowry. The book is a companion novel to the The Giver (1993), and is followed by Messenger (2004) in The Giver trilogy. It is set in the same future time period, but...
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- 2000
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is a science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem, First published English in 1973 (ISBN 0-8164-9128-3), a second edition was published in 1986 (ISBN 0-15-658585-5). The Polish original Pamiętnik znaleziony w wannie was first...
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- 1971
All Tomorrow's Parties
All Tomorrow's Parties is the final novel in William Gibson's Bridge trilogy. Like its predecessors, All Tomorrow's Parties is a speculative fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, postcyberpunk future. The novel borrows its title from that of...
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- Oct 7, 1999
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. This was Rand's fourth, longest and last novel, and she considered it her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing. As indicated by its working title The Strike,...
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- Oct 10, 1957
Parable of the Talents
Parable of the Talents is the second in a series of science fiction novels written by Octavia E. Butler and published in 1998.
Parable of the Talents (1998) (the sequel to Parable of the Sower) tells the story of how, as the U.S. continues to fall...
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- 1998
Suicide Circle: The Complete Edition
Suicide Circle: The Complete Edition (自殺サークル 完全版, Jisatsu Saakuru: Kanzenban) is a novel written by Japanese poet and filmmaker Sion Sono, based on his Suicide Circle trilogy. It was published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha in 2002.
Suicide Circle: The...
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- Apr 3, 2002
Among the Brave
Among the Brave is a 2004 book by Margaret Peterson Haddix, about a time in which drastic measures have been taken to quell overpopulation. It is the fifth of seven novels in the Shadow Children series.
The fifth book starts off directly where the...
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- Apr 27, 2004
Lord of the World
Lord of the World is a 1908 apocalyptic novel by Robert Hugh Benson. It is sometimes deemed one of the first modern dystopias. In purpose, however, it is somewhat more similar to the recent Left Behind series, if radically different in theology....
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- 1908
334
334 is a science fiction novel by American author Thomas M. Disch, written in 1972. It is a gritty, subtly dystopian look at everyday life in New York City around the year 2025.
Most of the novel's characters live in a huge housing project at 334...
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- 1972
Nineteen Eighty-Five
1985 is a novel by English writer Anthony Burgess. Originally published in 1978, it was inspired by, and was intended as a tribute to, George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
1985 is in two parts. The first is a series of essays and interviews ...
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- Oct 1, 1978
Moscow 2042
Moscow 2042 is a 1986 novel (translated from Russian 1987) by Vladimir Voinovich . In this book, the alter ego of the author travels to the future, where he sees how communism has been built up in Moscow: at first, it seems the government has...
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- 1986
Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes is a novel by Pierre Boulle, originally published in 1963 in French as La Planète des singes. As singe means both "ape" and "monkey," Xan Fielding called his translation Monkey Planet. It is an example of social commentary through...
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- 1963
Hello America
Hello America is a science fiction novel by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1981. The plot follows an expedition to a North America rendered uninhabitable by an ecological disaster.
Though the exact date is never specifically mentioned in the book...
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- Jun 4, 1981
A Friend of the Earth
T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel A Friend of the Earth (2000) is a story of environmental destruction. The novel is set in 2025; as a result of global warming and the greenhouse effect, the climate has drastically changed, and, accordingly, biodiversity...
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- Sep 2000
The Wanting Seed
The Wanting Seed is a dystopian novel by the English author Anthony Burgess, written in 1962.
Although the novel addresses many societal issues, the primary subject is overpopulation and its relation to culture. Religion, government, and history are...
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- 1962
That Hideous Strength
That Hideous Strength (subtitled "A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups") is a 1945 novel by C. S. Lewis, the final book in Lewis's theological science fiction Space Trilogy. The events of this novel follow those of Out of the Silent Planet and...
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- 1945
Shade's Children
Shade's Children is a young adult science fiction/fantasy novel written by Garth Nix. It was first published in 1997 by HarperCollins.
Shade's Children takes place in a not-so-distant future where evil Overlords have ruled for fifteen years due to a...
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- Sep 1997
Among the Free
Among the Free is a 2006 book by Margaret Peterson Haddix, about a time in which drastic measures have been taken to quell overpopulation. It is the seventh and final book in the Shadow Children series.
The general plot revolves around an...
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- Apr 2006
The Supernaturalist
The Supernaturalist, by Eoin Colfer (author of the ‘Artemis Fowl’ series) is a science-fiction novel (influenced in many ways by film noir and other predecessors of the cyberpunk science fiction movement, resulting in what could be termed a...
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- 2004
The Guardians
The Guardians is a novel written by John Christopher, originally published in 1970.
Set in the year 2052, the novel depicts a future, authoritarian England divided into two distinct societies: the modern, overpopulated "Conurbs" and the aristocratic...
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- 1970
The Children of Men
The Children of Men is a dystopian novel by P. D. James that was published in 1992. Set in England in 2021, it centres on the results of mass infertility. James describes a United Kingdom that is steadily depopulating and focuses on a small group of...
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- 1992
Mona Lisa Overdrive
Mona Lisa Overdrive is a cyberpunk novel by William Gibson published in 1988 and the final novel of the Sprawl trilogy, following Neuromancer and Count Zero. It takes place eight years after the events of Count Zero and is set, as were its...
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- 1988
And Chaos Died
And Chaos Died (1970) is a science fiction novel by Joanna Russ, perhaps the genre's best-known feminist author. Its setting is a dystopian projection of modern society, in which Earth's population has continued to grow, with the effects somewhat...
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- 1970
The Man Who Japed
The Man Who Japed is a science fiction novel written by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1956. Although one of Dick's lesser-known novels, it features several of the ideas and themes that recur throughout his later works. The term "japed" is an...
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- 1956
The World Inside
The World Inside is a science fiction novel written by Robert Silverberg and published in 1971. The novel first chapter was first published in 1970 as a short story titled "A Happy Day in 2381". The World Inside was nominated for a Hugo Award in...
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- 1971
