Thursday, February 28, 2013

The #spbkchat utopia/dystopia chat list

This past Thursday we talked about utopian/dystopian literature, which skewed towards dystopia more, because, as someone pointed out, utopia would get a bit dull after a while.

This coming Thursday, our focus is International Women's Day, so we'll be celebrating women writers. :-)


On to the list!



Titles:
The Age of Miracles
The Hunger Games (series)
Uglies
Pretties
Specials
The Machine Stops
Super Sad True Love Story
Battle Royale
1984
We
The Giver
Unwind
Divergent (series)
Legend
Never Let Me Go
Children of Men
The Handmaid's Tale
Oryx & Crake
Harmony
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Chaos Walking (series)
Winter of Fire
The Crossing (series)
Juno of Taris (series)
Atals Shrugged
Anthem
We the Living
Brave New World
When We Wake
Warm Bodies


Authors:
George Orwell
Patrick Ness
Margaret Atwood
Scott Westerfeld
E M Forster
Yevegny Zamyatin
P D James
Project Itoh
Mary E Pearson
Sherryl Jordan
Fleur Beale
Mandy Hager
Sir Thomas More
Karen Healey



Links:
http://flavorwire.com/373669/the-10-greatest-dystopian-love-stories/
http://literary-exploration.com/2012/09/12/dystopian-fiction-a-brief-history/

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