Amis, Martin
— Einstein’s Monsters
Anderson, M. T.
— Feed
Armstrong, Jon
— Grey (et.seq.)
Asimov, Isaac
— Pebble in the Sky
Auster, Paul
— In the Country of Last Things
Ballard, J. G.
— Crash
— Hello America
Barry, Max
— Jennifer Government
Bates, Paul L.
— Imprint
— Dreamer
Beaton, Alistair
— A Planet for the President
Beckett, Bernard
— Genesis
Böll, Heinrich
— My Melancholy Face
Boston, Bruce
— The Guardener’s Tale
Boyd, John
—The Last Starship from Earth
Brain, Marshall
— Manna
Brooke, Keith
— Genetopia
Brunner, John
— The Jagged Orbit
— The Sheep Look Up *
— The Shockwave Rider
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
— Vril: The Power of the Coming Race
Burgess, Anthony
— The Wanting Seed
Burroughs, William S.
— Blade Runner, a Movie
(see also Nourse, Alan E.)
Carbonneau, Louis
— Barrier World
Cobb, William
— A Spring of Souls
Cohen, Stuart Archer
— The Army of the Republic
Cowdrey, Albert E.
— Crux
DeVita, James
— The Silenced
DiChario, Nick
— Valley of Day-Glo
Dick, Philip K.
— Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
— The Man in the High Castle *
Disch, Thomas
— The Genocides
— 334
Farmer, Philip José
— Riders of the Purple Wage
— Dayworld
Ferrigno, Robert
— Prayers for the Assassin (et.seq.)
— The Jagged Orbit
— The Sheep Look Up *
— The Shockwave Rider
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
— Vril: The Power of the Coming Race
Burgess, Anthony
— The Wanting Seed
Burroughs, William S.
— Blade Runner, a Movie
(see also Nourse, Alan E.)
Carbonneau, Louis
— Barrier World
Cobb, William
— A Spring of Souls
Cohen, Stuart Archer
— The Army of the Republic
Cowdrey, Albert E.
— Crux
DeVita, James
— The Silenced
DiChario, Nick
— Valley of Day-Glo
Dick, Philip K.
— Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
— The Man in the High Castle *
Disch, Thomas
— The Genocides
— 334
Farmer, Philip José
— Riders of the Purple Wage
— Dayworld
Ferrigno, Robert
— Prayers for the Assassin (et.seq.)
Fischer, Tibor
— The Collector Collector
Fukui, Isamu
— Truancy
Gray, Alasdair
— Lanark: A Life in Four Books *
Grimes, Tom
— City of God
Hairston, Andrea
— Mindscape
Hall, Sarah
— Daughters of the North Harkaway, Nick
— The Gone-Away World Harris, Robert
— Fatherland
Harrison, Harry
— Make Room! Make Room! *
Herbert, Frank
— Hellstrom’s Hive
Hubbard, L. Ron
— Final Blackout
Huxley, Aldous
— Ape and Essence
Johnston, Paul
— The House of Dust
Keogh, Andrew
— Twentytwelve
Keppel-Jones, Arthur M.
— When Smuts Goes
Kerr, Philip
— The Second Angel
King, Stephen
(writing as Richard Bachman)
— The Long Walk
— The Running Man
Kuttner, Henry
— The Iron Standard
— The Collector Collector
Fukui, Isamu
— Truancy
Gray, Alasdair
— Lanark: A Life in Four Books *
Grimes, Tom
— City of God
Hairston, Andrea
— Mindscape
Hall, Sarah
— Daughters of the North Harkaway, Nick
— The Gone-Away World Harris, Robert
— Fatherland
Harrison, Harry
— Make Room! Make Room! *
Herbert, Frank
— Hellstrom’s Hive
Hubbard, L. Ron
— Final Blackout
Huxley, Aldous
— Ape and Essence
Johnston, Paul
— The House of Dust
Keogh, Andrew
— Twentytwelve
Keppel-Jones, Arthur M.
— When Smuts Goes
Kerr, Philip
— The Second Angel
King, Stephen
(writing as Richard Bachman)
— The Long Walk
— The Running Man
Kuttner, Henry
— The Iron Standard
Lamar, Jake
— The Last Integrationist
Le Guin, Ursula K.
— The Lathe of Heaven
Lerner, Lisa
— Just Like Beauty
Levin, Ira
— This Perfect Day
Lewis, Sinclair
— It Can’t Happen Here *
London, Jack
— The Iron Heel *
Lowry, Lois
— The Giver
Lundwall, Sam J.
— 2018 A.D. or the King Kong Blues
Mark, Jan
— Useful Idiots
McCarthy, Wil
— Bloom
McIntosh, Will
— Soft Apocalypse
McMullen, Sean
— Eyes of the Calculor
Mellick III, Carlton
— The Egg Man
— War Slut
Miéville, China
— Perdido Street Station
Moore, Alan
— V for Vendetta
Morgan, Richard
— Market Forces
— Thirteen (AKA Black Man) Morrison, Toni
— Paradise
Nabokov, Vladimir
— Invitation to a Beheading
— The Last Integrationist
Le Guin, Ursula K.
— The Lathe of Heaven
Lerner, Lisa
— Just Like Beauty
Levin, Ira
— This Perfect Day
Lewis, Sinclair
— It Can’t Happen Here *
London, Jack
— The Iron Heel *
Lowry, Lois
— The Giver
Lundwall, Sam J.
— 2018 A.D. or the King Kong Blues
Mark, Jan
— Useful Idiots
McCarthy, Wil
— Bloom
McIntosh, Will
— Soft Apocalypse
McMullen, Sean
— Eyes of the Calculor
Mellick III, Carlton
— The Egg Man
— War Slut
Miéville, China
— Perdido Street Station
Moore, Alan
— V for Vendetta
Morgan, Richard
— Market Forces
— Thirteen (AKA Black Man) Morrison, Toni
— Paradise
Nabokov, Vladimir
— Invitation to a Beheading
Neiderman, Andrew
— The Baby Squad
Nolan, William F. and George Clayton Johnson
— Logan’s Run
Norden, Eric
— The Ultimate Solution
Nourse, Alan E.
— The Blade Runner
(See also Burroughs, William S.)
O’Brien, Michael D.
— Eclipse of the Sun
Oppegaard, David
— The Suicide Collectors
Philbrick, Rodman
— The Last Book in the Universe
Pohl, Frederick and C. M. Kornbluth — The Space Merchants
Pollack, Rachel
— Unquenchable Fire
Powers, Tim
— Dinner at Deviant’s Palace
Rand, Ayn
— Anthem
Reed, Kit
— Enclave
Robinson, Kim Stanley
— The Gold Coast: Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych) *
Rucker, Rudy
— Postsingular
Russ, Joanna
— And Chaos Died
Scalzi, John with Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, and Karl Schroeder
— Metatropolis
Sharpe, Matthew
— Jamestown
Shirley, John
— Black Glass
Silva, Ulises
— Solstice
— The Baby Squad
Nolan, William F. and George Clayton Johnson
— Logan’s Run
Norden, Eric
— The Ultimate Solution
Nourse, Alan E.
— The Blade Runner
(See also Burroughs, William S.)
O’Brien, Michael D.
— Eclipse of the Sun
Oppegaard, David
— The Suicide Collectors
Philbrick, Rodman
— The Last Book in the Universe
Pohl, Frederick and C. M. Kornbluth — The Space Merchants
Pollack, Rachel
— Unquenchable Fire
Powers, Tim
— Dinner at Deviant’s Palace
Rand, Ayn
— Anthem
Reed, Kit
— Enclave
Robinson, Kim Stanley
— The Gold Coast: Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych) *
Rucker, Rudy
— Postsingular
Russ, Joanna
— And Chaos Died
Scalzi, John with Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, and Karl Schroeder
— Metatropolis
Sharpe, Matthew
— Jamestown
Shirley, John
— Black Glass
Silva, Ulises
— Solstice
— The World Inside
Singer, Lee
— Blackjack
Slattery, Brian Francis
— Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America *
Smith, Cordwainer
— The Rediscovery of Man
Smith, L. Neil
— The Probability Broach
Spinrad, Norman
— The Iron Dream
Starhawk
— The Fifth Sacred Thing
Stevens-Arce, James
— Soulsaver
Takami, Koushun
— Battle Royale
Tevis, Walter
— Mockingbird
Theroux, Marcel
— Far North
Tomson, Rupert
— Divided Kingdom
Turner, George
— The Sea and Summer
Turtledove, Harry
— The Gladiator
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
— Player Piano *
Walton, Jo
— Farthing
— Ha’Penny
Waugh, Evelyn
— Love Among the Ruins
Wells, H. G.
— The Time Machine
— When the Sleeper Wakes
Weyn, Suzanne
— The Bar Code Tattoo (et.seq.)
Williams, David J.
— The Mirrored Heavens
Wilson, Robert Anton
— The Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy
Wilson, Robert Charles
— Mysterium
Womack, Jack
— Random Acts of Senseless Violence Wright, Ronald
— A Scientific Romance
Zamyatin, Yevgeny
— We *
— The Bar Code Tattoo (et.seq.)
Williams, David J.
— The Mirrored Heavens
Wilson, Robert Anton
— The Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy
Wilson, Robert Charles
— Mysterium
Womack, Jack
— Random Acts of Senseless Violence Wright, Ronald
— A Scientific Romance
Zamyatin, Yevgeny
— We *
This isn't exactly my favorite SF subgenre (I'm something of an optimist when it comes to the future), so I haven't read a whole lot of these, but the ones I've read and enjoyed are listed here with some quick comments:
ReplyDeleteThe Shockwave Rider: The ending is a little weak, but it's pretty fantastic overall.
V for Vendetta: Shocking and raw and subversive and antiestablishment. Would be interesting to see if 9/11 would color my re-reading of it.
I've heard that Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is one of PKD's best novels, and it's been on my short list of books to read for a while now. The Man in the High Castle is more an alt-history, but I suppose it's a very dystopian alt-history.
Pebble in the Sky is one of Asimov's Galactic Empire books that take place between the Robot books and the Foundation series. I've read the former and the latter, but not the in-between books. Meant to.
Ballard seems like an author I should like in theory, but I just don't know. Crash is my least favorite Cronenberg movie, which has (probably unfairly) kind of scared me away from reading Ballard.
You can't go wrong with Frank Herbert, Le Guin, Vonnegut, and Nabokov. And what little I've read by Cordwainer Smith has impressed me.
I'm surprised you haven't read Perdido Street Station. It was all the rage a few years ago. I almost read it recently in one of my many book clubs, but it didn't make the final cut, unfortunately. I've heard nothing but good things.
I've been intrigued by The Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy for decades (mainly for the title), but I haven't gotten around to reading them.
You're a pretty committed dystopian reader. I'm trying to fit more into my reading repertoire in the next little while. My favorite so far? Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
ReplyDelete@Ed- Thanks for your list; I wil add them shortly. I really need to read V for many reasons. And would you believe that I've only read one book by Mieville?
ReplyDelete@Trish - I liked that one too. Pretty bleak.