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Any dystopian future (or other sci-fi) books I can't miss?

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sjwaste said:
Marked. Great reading list.

I finished Asimov's Foundation series and am now on the last of the Robot series, Robots and Empire. Actually, I'm waiting for it to become available on the Nook.

I'd recommend those two as well, but they're not necessarily dystopian.
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Tried to start Foundation but I just couldn't get into it. Felt like it was kind of all over the place and wasn't edited very well.
 
gorcorps said:
Tried to start Foundation but I just couldn't get into it. Felt like it was kind of all over the place and wasn't edited very well.
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Blasphemy!

In all seriousness, I loved the series. Very few books or series have stuck with me through the years the way the Foundation Series has.

And if you read I Am Legend (OP, or whoever hasn't read it), you'll be amazed at how they massacred what should have been excellent source material for a movie.
 
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Spoooon said:
Blasphemy!

In all seriousness, I loved the series. Very few books or series have stuck with me through the years the way the Foundation Series has.

And if you read I Am Legend (OP, or whoever hasn't read it), you'll be amazed at how they massacred what should have been excellent source material for a movie.
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I don't know why I didn't like it. Just didn't. I might give it a go later but with so many other books that I DO like it'll be a while.

And yeah, I Am Legend was in my OP on books I've read already. I've had several discussions in other threads about how the movie shouldn't even share the same name. It's not in the slightest like the book at all.
 
I also suggest Hyperion (and those that follow)

Another really good book by the same author is Illium, especially if you also like the Epic of Troy. There is also a sequel to that which is good too.

A book I read recently is The Wind-Up Girl. It took a bit for me to get into, but once I did I really liked it.
 
Enders Game & Enders Shadow are not technically Dystopia, but they are the best sci-fi books i have read.
 
My wife, who's really into dystopian novels, suggests The Handmaids Tale, and Jennifer Government: I've read the second book and it's a fun read - and she also suggests the short story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
 
On the YA side:
Tripods series by John Christopher
City of Ember
The Girl Who Owned a City
House of Stairs
The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
Shade's Children by Garth Nix
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Uplift Civilization
Lest Darkness Fall by L Sprague de Camp
Safehold series by David Weber (not actually timetravel, set in future)
Belisarius series by Eric Flint and David Drake
1632 series by Eric Flint
General series by S M Stirling and David Drake (The Forge, The Hammer, etc)
Destroyermen by Taylor Andersen
 
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Neuromancer. One of the most influential novels of the twentieth century.

Snow Crash. Not really all that great, but fairly imaginative and entertaining.

sao123 said:
Enders Game & Enders Shadow are not technically Dystopia, but they are the best sci-fi books i have read.
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I was going to say this...the Ender books and Starship Troopers have a fascist future kind of vibe.

Any of the Hainish books by Ursula K. Le Guin (e.g. The Left Hand of Darkness, Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile) might have what you're looking for. Not exactly grim or bleak...just real.
 
sjwaste said:
I finished Asimov's Foundation series and am now on the last of the Robot series, Robots and Empire. Actually, I'm waiting for it to become available on the Nook.
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Oh, wrong order! Wrong order!

I was a child of the Robot series and didn't pick up Foundation until later, resulting in the most epic homecoming of all times. Foundation is set so distant from the Robot series that when they came crashing together in Prelude, (
"I am Da-nee, friend of Ba-lee."
) I bawled.
 
Kadarin said:
I couldn't get past the beginning of Diamond Age, where I felt the author was just trying way too hard to be cyberpunk that it got in the way of the story.
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i was the opposite. loved diamond age, picked up snow crash but never got past the first couple dozen pages.


...that reminds me i read about 80% of cryptonomicon maybe i should finish it one of these days
 
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