List of dystopian literature

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This is a list of novels commonly viewed as dystopian literature.

The majority of the listed works are not controversial, in the sense that their dystopian character is generally acknowledged. However, some are not universally classified as dystopias. Such debates frequently surround works that do not show the classic characteristics of dystopian fiction, such as a government that seeks total control of individuals' lives. For example, some critics acknowledge the menacing and dehumanising elements portrayed in William Gibson's Neuromancer and its sequels, but see these works as more an attempt to create an entertaining heterotopia, a society that is neither utopian nor entirely bad^{[citation needed]}.

Contents 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 F 6 G 7 H 8 I 9 J 10 K 11 L 12 M 13 N 14 O 15 P 16 R 17 S 18 T 19 U 20 V 21 W, X, Y, Z 22 References 23 See also

[edit] A

• Acidity by Nadeem F. Paracha^{[citation needed]}
• Alongside Night by J. Neil Schulman ^[1]
• All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson^{[citation needed]}
• Ambient by Jack Womack^[2]
• Anthem by Ayn Rand ^[3]
• Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley^[3]

[edit] B

• Battle Royale by Koushun Takami ^[4]
• Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov^[5]
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley^[3]

[edit] C

• The Children of Men by P.D. James ^[6]
• The Chrysalids by John Wyndham^{[citation needed]}
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell ^[7]
• Chung Kuo by David Wingrove^{[citation needed]}
• Count Zero by William Gibson ^[8]

[edit] D

• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler^[9]
• Dayworld by Philip José Farmer ^[10]
• The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester^{[citation needed]}
• The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson^[11]
• Die Andere Seite by Alfred Kubin^{[citation needed]}
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (arguably, and ambiguously, setting a dystopia against a utopia^[12])
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick^{[citation needed]}
• Doc and Fluff by Pat Califia^{[citation needed]}
• The Domination by S. M. Stirling^{[citation needed]}

[edit] F

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury^[3]
• Fatherland by Robert Harris ^[13]
• Feed by M. T. Anderson ^[14]
• The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk^{[citation needed]}
• The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells (description of Selenite society is the first Alien dystopia^[3])

[edit] G

• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry^{[citation needed]}
• The Giver by Lois Lowry^{[citation needed]}
• The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger^{[citation needed]}
• Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem^{[citation needed]}

[edit] H

• Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood^[3]
• Heathern by Jack Womack^[2]
• Homeland by R.A. Salvatore^{[citation needed]}
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

[edit] I

• Idoru by William Gibson^{[citation needed]}
• I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison^{[citation needed]}
• "If This Goes On—" by Robert A. Heinlein^[3]
• In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster^{[citation needed]}
• Incal (and spinoffs) by Alejandro Jodorowsky^{[citation needed]}
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes^{[citation needed]}
• The Iron Heel by Jack London^[3]
• It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis^{[citation needed]}

[edit] J

• The Jagged Orbit by John Brunner^[3]
• Jennifer Government by Max Barry^{[citation needed]}

[edit] K

• Kallocain by Karin Boye^{[citation needed]}
• Kazohinia by Sándor Szathmári^{[citation needed]}

[edit] L

• The Last Election by Pete Davies [1]
• The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan^{[citation needed]}
• Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald^{[citation needed]}
• Limbo, (vt. Limbo 90) by Bernard Wolfe^[3]
• Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson^{[citation needed]}
• The Long Walk by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)^{[citation needed]}
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson^{[citation needed]}

[edit] M

• The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster^[3]
• Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison^[3]
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick^{[citation needed]}
• Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem^{[citation needed]}
• Messenger by Lois Lowry^{[citation needed]}
• Mockingbird by Walter Tevis^{[citation needed]}
• Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson^{[citation needed]}
• Moscow 2042 by Vladimir Voinovich^{[citation needed]}

[edit] N

• The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs^[15]
• Neuromancer by William Gibson^{[citation needed]}
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro^{[citation needed]}
• Nineteen Eighty-Five by Anthony Burgess^{[citation needed]}
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, the most famous English language 20th century dystopia^[16]
• Noughts & Crosses series by Malorie Blackman
• Nova Express by William Burroughs^[3]

[edit] O

• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood^[17]

[edit] P

• Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler^{[citation needed]}
• Perdido Street Station by China Miéville^{[citation needed]}
• Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle^{[citation needed]}
• Player Piano (also known as Utopia 14) by Kurt Vonnegut^[18]

• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth^{[citation needed]}
• Pretties by Scott Westerfeld^{[citation needed]}

[edit] R

• Rammer by Larry Niven (later incorporated as Part I of the novel A World Out of Time)^{[citation needed]}
• Ravage by René Barjavel^{[citation needed]}
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison^{[citation needed]}
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy^{[citation needed]}
• The Running Man by Richard Bachman, a pseudonym for Stephen King^{[citation needed]}
• Running Out of Time by Margaret Haddix^{[citation needed]}

[edit] S

• Sea of Glass by Barry B. Longyear^{[citation needed]}
• Shade's Children by Garth Nix^{[citation needed]}
• The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner^[3]
• The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner^[3]
• The Shore of Women by Pamela Sargent ^{[citation needed]}
• The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya^{[citation needed]}
• Smith's Dream by C. K. Stead^{[citation needed]}
• Specials by Scott Westerfeld^{[citation needed]}
• Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner^[3]
• A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille^{[citation needed]}
• The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer^{[citation needed]}
• Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin^[19]
• Sweeney's Island (also known as Cloud On Silver) by John Christopher^[20]

[edit] T

• Terraplane by Jack Womack^[2]
• That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis^{[citation needed]}
• This Perfect Day by Ira Levin^[21]
• Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick^{[citation needed]}
• The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks^{[citation needed]}
• The Trial by Franz Kafka^{[citation needed]}
• The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce^{[citation needed]}

[edit] U

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld^{[citation needed]}
• Utopia X by Scott Wilson^{[citation needed]}

[edit] V

• Veracity by Mark Lavorato^{[citation needed]}
• Virtual Light by William Gibson^{[citation needed]}

[edit] W, X, Y, Z

• The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess^{[citation needed]}
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin^[3]
• When The Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells^[3]

In addition, most of the novels set in the Warhammer 40,000 Universe focus on the dystopian Imperium of Man^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] References

1. ^ Kirkus Reviews, 1 October, 1979.
2. ^ ^{a b c} WOMACK, JACK. The Locus Index to Science Fiction: Books, Listed by Author.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r} Stableford, Brian (1993). "Dystopias", in John Clute & Peter Nicholls (eds.): The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, 2nd edition, Orbit, London, pp. 360-362. ISBN 1-85723-124-4. 
4. ^ Battle Royale film review (mentions book). Variety Magazine, Tue., Jan. 23, 2001. Retrieved on 2007-01-23.
5. ^ Clute, John (1993). "Nabokov, Vladimir", in John Clute & Peter Nicholls (eds.): The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, 2nd edition, Orbit, London, p. 854. ISBN 1-85723-124-4. 
6. ^ Kirkus Reviews, 1 December, 1993.
7. ^ Kloszewski, M. (15 June, 2004). Library Journal, 129(11): 56.
8. ^ Kirkus Reviews, 15 February, 1986.
9. ^ Clute, John (1993). "Koestler, Arthur", in John Clute & Peter Nicholls (eds.): The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, 2nd edition, Orbit, London, p. 675. ISBN 1-85723-124-4. 
10. ^ Kirkus Reviews, 1 February, 1984.
11. ^ Kirkus Reviews, 15 December, 1994.
12. ^ Nicholls, Peter (1993). "Le Guin, Ursula K(Roeber)", in John Clute & Peter Nicholls (eds.): The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, 2nd edition, Orbit, London, pp 702-705. ISBN 1-85723-124-4. 
13. ^ Kirkus Reviews, 15 May, 1992.
14. ^ Kirkus Reviews, 1 September, 2002.
15. ^ David, Pringle; Clute, John (1993). "Burroughs, William", in John Clute & Peter Nicholls (eds.): The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, 2nd edition, Orbit, London, p. 179. ISBN 1-85723-124-4. 
16. ^ Clute, John (1993). "Orwell, George", in John Clute & Peter Nicholls (eds.): The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, 2nd edition, Orbit, London, p. 896. ISBN 1-85723-124-4. 
17. ^ Bethune, Brian. "Book Review: Atwood's Oryx and Crake", Maclean's Magazine, April 28, 2003
18. ^ Stableford, Brian (1993). "Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.", in John Clute & Peter Nicholls (eds.): The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, 2nd edition, Orbit, London, p. 1289. ISBN 1-85723-124-4. 
19. ^ BURDEKIN, KATHARINE (Penelope) “KAY”. The Locus Index to Science Fiction: Books, Listed by Author.
20. ^ Clute, John; Nicholls, Peter (1993). "Christopher, John.", in John Clute & Peter Nicholls (eds.): The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, 2nd edition, Orbit, London, pp. 218-219. ISBN 1-85723-124-4. 
21. ^ Clute, John (1993). "Levin, Ira", in John Clute & Peter Nicholls (eds.): The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, 2nd edition, Orbit, London, p. 715. ISBN 1-85723-124-4. 

[edit] See also

• List of dystopian films
• List of dystopian music, TV programmes, and games