Do You Have A Favorite Futuristic Novel?

[Rudynate]

Not disputing that at all, but I thought a great writer would find different ways to say it rather than repeating the same word ad-nauseam.

BTW not everybody thinks he is a great writer. According to the wiki page @Avalon linked, some claim he plagiarized large parts of Brave New World.

 

 

OTOH, maybe it's a literary device.

[+ quoththeraven]

Regarding "A Clockwork Orange" - I've not read the book but have seen the movie. When I was in college it was put on in the student union. There were several young nuns attending the school and they were at the movie. I was surprised.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)

Read the book, saw the movie with my high school boyfriend. I was just old enough to see the movie without a parent.

[Gadfly22]

OTOH, maybe it's a literary device.

Possibly but seemed to me more the refuge of a lazy mind than intentional device of a clever writer.

[body2body]

Margaret Atwood must be in the running as a one of the best creators of Dystopian worlds.

The Handmaid’s Tale

Oryx and Crake

The Year of the Flood

MaddAddam

The last three are related, but she resists classifying them as a “trilogy”.

 

[MikeBiDude]

Stephen King's The Stand.

I knew I liked you! I’ve read The Stand like 4 times. The BEST characters.

 

The Walking Dead etc have kinda ruined my apocalyptic enjoyment, books were better

[Rudynate]

Margaret Atwood must be in the running as a one of the best creators of Dystopian worlds.

The Handmaid’s Tale

Oryx and Crake

The Year of the Flood

MaddAddam

The last three are related, but she resists classifying them as a “trilogy”.

 

I read her first novel "surfacing" as an assignment for a class in existential literature in college. Found it really lame. I was surprised at what a good author she became.

[BasketBaller]

A Canticle for Leibowitz

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

[+ WilliamM]

Any book by the ditzy author, Patrick Dennis, except the photos in the hilarious movie star autobiography, "Little Me"

[TruHart1]

Any book by the ditzy author, Patrick Dennis, except the photos in the hilarious movie star autobiography, "Little Me"

Make note of the thread topic: I love these books, too, @WilliamM but there is really no way they could be categorized as futuristic novels.

 

TruHart1

[+ WilliamM]

Make note of the thread topic: I love these books, too, @WilliamM but there is really no way they could be categorized as futuristic novels.

 

TruHart1

 

I guess. The book must be out of print.

[+ quoththeraven]

Regarding "A Clockwork Orange" - I've not read the book but have seen the movie. When I was in college it was put on in the student union. There were several young nuns attending the school and they were at the movie. I was surprised.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)

It's all about free will. So it shouldn't have been such a surprise.

[+ Avalon]

It's all about free will. So it shouldn't have been such a surprise.

 

I remember almost nothing about the movie now. I was surprised that nuns would see such a movie. They were the same religious order that took care of my grandmother when she had her legs amputated but how they had changed in 25 years!