Any other authors? There's a lot of bullshit sci-fi distopian fiction which focuses on cardboard characters and childish romantics.
But is there anyone else like Orwell or Huxley, or even Kafka - people with a theory, a focal point, a purpose? Philosophers, not just writers of rattling good stories?
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Anonymous2006-10-17 23:18
Depending on who you ask, Battle Royale by Koushun Takami might fit your bill.
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Anonymous2006-10-18 0:58
Philosophy, eh? The only philosophical fiction I can think of at the moment is the Lazarus Long books by R.A. Heinlein. It's not dystopian unless you consider griping about 20th century society and calling 19th century interpersonal relationships an admirable ideal, dystopian. Be warned, some of the subject matter may be /b/ fodder (or at least copy pasta worthy). Hmm, you may have been referring to that as childishly romantic. Oh well.
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Anonymous2006-10-18 7:27
Margaret Atwood. Worthy modern successor to the distopian tradition.
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Anonymous2006-10-18 13:52
Battlefield Earth mah man, Scientology is the shit.
I just finished A Handmaid's Tale by Atwood. Really excellent, thanks. I'll look at some of the others, but I can't imagine any modern writer topping Atwood's approach for me.
Books suck sure there's an ebuild for books but it just get dropped to /opt, it's statically linked, and it's CLOSED SOURCE, which means that it is a BINARY package.
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Anonymous2006-11-16 17:26
Oryx and Crake, also by Margaret Atwood.
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Anonymous2006-11-24 11:24
Check out Ayn Rand's Anthem, it’s a dystopian novel based on her philosophy.
Just stop it, Margaret. Blatant self-promotion will win you about as many readers as your crappy writing.
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Anonymous2006-11-24 20:02
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov.
It's Kafkaesque (although Nabokov claimed he was not influenced by Kafka), and unlike many dystopian novels, it concentrates more on the individual than the society as a whole. It also deals heavily with meta-literary themes.
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Anonymous2006-11-24 23:29
Snow Crash
Neuromancer
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Anonymous2006-11-25 22:26
'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess.
The book is better than the film amazingly. His theory of gangland violence and the loss of youth has come true, especially in Britain.
'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding.
Theory of man's underlying primitive violent nature and how society masks it. Cracking story too.