5 Wonderful Dystopian Fictional Books
We are drawn to dystopian fiction because it reflects aspects of our own world. The best dystopian books present a world that, while eerily familiar, is far more frightening than our own by mirroring elements of society, the environment, religion, politics, or technology. Posted On August 11th, 2021
Brave New World
In this classic dystopian novel, Aldous Huxley presents a future in which the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Heavily influenced by the science fiction writers who came before him, such as H.G. Wells. Its members are content consumers, kept docile by a sinister combination of genetic engineering, brainwashing, and recreational sex and drugs.
The Giver
Lois Lowry's The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel. It is set in a society that appears to be utopian at first. Still, it gradually reveals itself to be dystopian as the story progresses. Jonas, a 12-year-old boy, is the protagonist of the novel.
The Road
Cormac McCarthy's classic dystopian novel The Road is one of the most shocking, harrowing, and bleak visions of the future ever created. It is a post-apocalyptic tale of a man and his son trying to survive by any means possible. In 2009, the book was adapted into a BAFTA-nominated film starring Viggo Mortensen.
Station Eleven
In recent years, Station Eleven, one of our favorite dystopian novels, moves back and forth in time, presenting the recognizable years just before a flu epidemic caused the collapse of civilization alongside the strange and altered world that exists twenty years later. It's a novel that asks questions about art and fame, as well as the relationships that keep us going through difficult times.
A Clockwork Station
A Clockwork Orange is one of the most inventively written dystopian novels ever published, written in teen slang 'Nadsat,' a dialogue Burgess created and depicted a society overrun by nihilistic violence governed by the novel by a menacing totalitarian state. Alex, fifteen, and his gang of friends rob, kill, and assualt their way through life until the State intervenes.
