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If you don't already have your copy, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is Today's (12/29/11) Daily Deal and is selling for $1.49. I have been meaning to read this for months... Now it's on my Kindle and I may just have to start it this week. |
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« Reply #76 on: December 29, 2011, 01:28:05 PM » |
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An enjoyable libertarian Utopian fantasy is The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith. It had several sequels, not sure they are on Kindle. Silly but fun.
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« Reply #77 on: December 29, 2011, 11:21:15 PM » |
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I echo the recommendations for Divergent and also recommend Neal Shusterman's Unwind.
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« Reply #78 on: December 30, 2011, 01:27:22 AM » |
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I can't believe no one has mentioned Delirium by Lauren Oliver! It is more romance centered than anything else, but it's great. Seconding/thirding/tenthing Divergent! Some people consider Never Let Me Go dystopian, that was a good read.
I couldn't really get into Matched, but to each his own!
A few I want to check out but haven't got the chance to yet:
Birthmarked
Legend
Incarceron
The Knife of Never Letting Go (but maybe it's more post-apocalyptic?)
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« Reply #80 on: December 31, 2011, 03:01:34 AM » |
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Many of these have already been mentioned, but I thought I'd do some collating and add my own choices:
1984
Animal Farm
Neuromancer
The Hunger Games series
A Wrinkle in Time
The Time Machine
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
2150 AD (Utopian)
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Gather, Darkness!
City (I cannot praise this book enough, one of the greatest sci-fi books ever written, and one of the greatest books ever written)
The Caves of Steel and its sequels by Isaac Asimov
Fahrenheit 451 ("It was a pleasure to burn.")
On the Beach
The Handmaid's Tale (I didn't really enjoy it, but it was quite readable. My Y chromosome may have impacted my enjoyment.)
Logan's Run/Logan's World (the sequel is vastly inferior, but still worth reading)
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« Reply #81 on: January 02, 2012, 09:05:14 PM » |
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I recommend the anthology Brave New Worlds edited by John Joseph Adams. Contains various dystopian short stories.
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« Reply #82 on: January 03, 2012, 08:03:11 AM » |
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George Orwell is one of my favourite authors, so I second 1984, and also the other classic 1984. I love Orwell so much that my novel is a kind of tribute to 1984.
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« Reply #83 on: January 03, 2012, 08:15:12 AM » |
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I wonder if Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro fits into this. I think it does. It's one of my all time favourite books. I must like the utopia/dystopia theme.
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« Reply #84 on: January 03, 2012, 08:17:12 AM » |
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The last two books I read were YA Dystopian: The Maze Runner (James Dashner) and Ship Breaker (Paolo Bacigalupi). The Maze Runner is really popular and not very well written, imo, whereas Ship Breaker is very well-written, has won multiple awards, but of course is not very popular. Go figure. You can read reviews of them on my site if it do please ya (see sig.).
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« Reply #85 on: January 03, 2012, 08:23:53 AM » |
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Wow thanks for the link to the bargain Margaret Atwood. I've been wanting to get that one.
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« Reply #86 on: January 04, 2012, 08:37:55 AM » |
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I can't get the Margaret Atwood book for Kindle in the UK. It's only on the US site. I can't understand why a Kindle on Amazon in one country can't be available worldwide.  |
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« Reply #87 on: January 04, 2012, 11:44:34 AM » |
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I can't get the Margaret Atwood book for Kindle in the UK. It's only on the US site. I can't understand why a Kindle on Amazon in one country can't be available worldwide. It's generally because different people/organizations/hold the rights in different countries and have not released the book in the various formats. Not Amazon's fault. They'd LOVE to be able to sell any thing to any body. . .but have to abide by each country's laws. |
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« Reply #89 on: January 04, 2012, 01:43:22 PM » |
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Publishers' contracts usually cover US and UK, so I find it strange. Sometimes I think the publisher has just forgotten to list it on all Amazon websites. Each one has to be done separately. There should be an easier way as it's easy to miss a site out.
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« Reply #92 on: January 06, 2012, 02:41:37 PM » |
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I suppose the Stepford Wives type of story fits into this too. There were quite a few spin-offs from that.
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« Reply #93 on: January 06, 2012, 04:58:53 PM » |
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I'm unsure if it's been posted yet, but The Line, by Teri Hall is the first in a new series set in a dystopian society. The second book, Away, is on the shelves, too, and there's word that a third book is being written as we speak. Just a warning: it's written for a younger audience, but nonetheless, it's a good read.
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« Reply #94 on: January 06, 2012, 06:29:52 PM » |
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On the subject of whether it's lazy publishers forgetting to make a book available - I've realised the automatic option is to make a book available on all sites so it must be deliberate when they don't. Must be to do with territorial rights after all.
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« Reply #95 on: January 07, 2012, 05:21:37 PM » |
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Just an observation. To date there are nearly a hundred posts on this thread, but only a handful even nod in the direction of utopia. In fact, most commentators talk as if "Utopian" isn't even in the subject line.
I suspect that this is unconscious, but it's telling, isn't it? We know instinctively that utopias are boring, because, by definition, they contain no conflict.
And doesn't this tell us something about ourselves? There's only so much sweetness and light we can take. Whatever we might like to think, we crave conflict; we think that life without it wouldn't be worth living. This, I suspect, is where Karl Marx and other utopians go wrong: the perfect world they envisage would in fact be hell. And it's in such imaginings that dystopias are born.
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« Reply #96 on: January 07, 2012, 06:42:51 PM » |
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« Reply #97 on: January 08, 2012, 09:15:53 AM » |
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I've been reading The Giver by Lois Lowry after it showed up in the Kindle Daily Deal a short while back... good so far!   |
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« Reply #98 on: January 08, 2012, 11:24:21 AM » |
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Just finished reading H10N1. Good fast read for $1.99 (or free with Prime).  Along the same lines is Jakarta Pandemic.  |
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« Reply #99 on: January 08, 2012, 01:26:13 PM » |
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Have you heard of The Chemical Garden trilogy by Lauren DeStefano? Should be right up your street |
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