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Orwellian and distopian fiction

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-17 22:54

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?

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-24 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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