What are some good dystopian works of fiction you would suggest reading, other than the ones listed below?

Question

I've already read or at least know of these greats:
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Messenger by Lois Lowry

So what other dystopian literature would you suggest reading?

Answer 1

'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin. This Russian novel was the main influence on both Huxley and Orwell's novels that you list.

Answer 2

The Iron Heel by Jack London
Caesar's Column by Ignatius Donnelly
Maybe Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Scott Westerfeld's Uglies, Pretties, and Specials
Paul Auster's In the Country of Last Things
Stephen King's The Running Man
Fritz Lang's film Metropolis
Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
John Carpenter's Escape from New York and Escape from L.A.
Larry and Andy Wachowski's film The Matrix
James De Mille's early A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
Yevgeny Zamyatin's We
Suzanne Weyn's The Bar Code Tattoo and Bar Code Rebellion
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron"
Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
Ira Levin's This Perfect Day
Ayn Rand's Anthem and Atlas Shrugged
William Gibson's cyberpunk novels.
Alfonso Cuarón's film Children of Men based on P. D. James' The Children of Men
William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson's book Logan's Run
Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go"
D. Harlan Wilson's "Dr. Identity"
Max Barry's "Jennifer Government"

Answer 3

Only one I can think of is Walden Two by B.F. Skinner. I'm not sure which you would consider "dystopian," though, so I'd simply say that an awful lot of science fiction deals with the dark side of various possible futures, as much as anything because that's the way to have a plot for your story.

There's one called "The Child Buyer" but I don't remember the author's name. "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick might twist your brain around, but it fascinates. Or what about "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Miller? Two which might be considered dystopian are "The Island of Dr. Moreau" by H.G. Wells and "Lord of Light" by Roger Zelazny. Indeed, Wells' "Time Machine" might also be included.

P.S. "Stand on Zanzibar" which I think was also Zelazny, but I may be confusing it because of the "Z".

Answer 4

Dick, Philip K.-- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Butler, Samuel -- Erewhon

Asimov's The Caves of Steel, and The Naked Sun might be called dystopian.

Or try the Wikipedia entry under "dystopian novels":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dystopian_novels

Answer 5

'The Running Man' - Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)
'Fahrenheit 451' - Ray Bradbury
'The Long Walk' - Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)
'Make Room! Make Room!' - Harry Harrison
'Logan's Run' - William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
'Invitation to the Game' - Monica Hughes
'The Children of Men' - P.D. James