What are some of the most important pieces of Dystopian literature that I should read?
And I mean truly Dystopian like Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, A Clockwork Orange, Handmaid’s Tale, Andrei Tarkovsky’s STALKER, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, or Animal Farm.
Straight Post-Apocalyptic stories like The Road don’t fall into that category for me, as The Road seems more focused on individual survival within a harsh new world after massive destruction, rather than exploring the failure of a crumbling society as how a Dystopian story is supposed to go.
Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian stories like 28 Days Later or Threads are acceptable though.
by Def-C
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Check out Parabole of the Sower by Octavia Butler. The government has essentially collapsed and its all down to neighborhoods grouping up and trying to protect eachother
Never Let Me Go, I Who Have Never Known Men, The Gate to Women’s Country
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, hands down.