Best products from r/dystopianbooks

This genre can be pretty varied depending on what your interested in.

If you want to explore all it has to offer, check out “Brave New Worlds”. Brave New Worlds It’s an anthology of short stories that spans the gamut from dystopian historical fiction to fantasy and hard sci fi.

If you’re looking for a realistic near future dystopian novel, check out the Maddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood. The first book in the trilogy, Oryx and Crake, was one of only a handful of novels that I’ve ever read cover to cover in just one sitting.

If you’re interested in YA dystopian fiction, the Uglies “trilogy” by Scott Westerfield is pretty good. For dystopian post-apocalyptic YA, I’d recommend The 100 series by Kass Morgan.

There’s a ton out there in this genre and it keeps growing. Let us know what you find.

Ready Player One

>Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other world-wide citizens, Wade dreams of finding three keys left behind by James Halliday, the now-deceased creator of OASIS and the richest man to have ever lived. The keys are rumored to be hidden inside OASIS, and whoever finds them will inherit Halliday’s fortune. But Halliday has not made it easy. And there are real dangers in this virtual world. Stuffed to the gills with action, puzzles, nerdy romance, and 80s nostalgia, this high energy cyber-quest will make geeks everywhere feel like they were separated at birth from author Ernest Cline.

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00YSJORNU

Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00YSJORNU

Amazon AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00YSJORNU

If you enjoy the eBook, I'd be thrilled if you left a short review! Thanks, Jack :)

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

I like short stories. This is a nice collection of after the apocalypse stories. I think some people here would enjoy it. This is one of my permanent shelf books. I have read and reread this one quite a few times. Hope someone here gets something out of it and that it fits in.

Please read M Against M It is about a world where there are insiders and outsiders, and politics and the media are run by an organization called Metropolis which is a unified media/state security corporation.

I've been telling anyone who would listen that it's 'Our 1984'. It's unlike anything you've ever read. Enjoy.

Yo bro...it was free last weekend. This weekend it's Earth Seven - a Sci-fi Satire. Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0725XS6TQ

It will be a little while before The Robespierre Conspiracy goes free again.
I have to set up some stuff on my website first...then I will offer it free again. Gimme a few weeks.

Don't mean to push my own stuff, but I recently finished my own dystopian novella. The ideas behind it came from my late best friend, who was a highly successful Dartmouth dropout and entrepreneur, but who was also unfortunately depressed. Only a few months ago, as I was in the final stages of editing the book, he passed away of suicide. RIP Jack Edward Duffy.

This book is a brainchild of the two of us, and I think his ideas live on as long as the book is still out there.

It can be found at this link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S9YMS18/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_Yr9lDbG7211S8

I think you either need a Kindle or the Kindle App which is available on the Android/Apple app stores.

If anyone decides to give it a read, please let me know what you think!

Pap: A 21st Century Dystopia, is as good a novel about fascism as you're likely to find. It takes place in a world run by a single corporation, a private empire said to dwarf any in the history of the planet. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pap-Adam-Mathews/dp/1909421758/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458738345&sr=1-2

Try The Passage by Justin Cronin.


For a series, consider Eon by Greg Bear, it continues with Eternity and Legacy, since you like the Flood/Ark set.

Definitely check out Wool.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Phillip K. Dick

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Stigmata-Palmer-Eldritch/dp/1433248220

Story of a guy living on near future Earth who gets wrapped up in a drug war type situation where colonists on other planets cope with the harsh living conditions by taking a drug that meld's all the user's consciousnesses in the room into a single being in a perfect world formatted by figurines start using a similar substance being marketed by an entity not controlled by the government. Pretty bonkers story, freaked me out to be honest.

Ubik is also a great read. Anything by Dick is going to be entertaining (and completely crazy)

The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess. Overpopulated world where homosexuality is encouraged, heterosexuals are persecuted, and cannibalism is acceptable.

Total shot in the dark, based on the plethora of info you gave, but is this it?

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Forager-Trilogy-Apocalyptic-Dystopian-ebook/dp/B00KOHS37Q

Maybe the Breaker series. The 7th book just came out but you can get the first 3 for 0.99. http://www.amazon.com/Breakers-Books-Edward-W-Robertson-ebook/dp/B00E9YL3HM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1420069031&sr=8-2&keywords=breakers

I second The Water Knife

The Four Fingers of Death

>Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror classic, "The Crawling Hand." Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to the desolation of Mars. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating bacterium for use in bio-warfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues.

>Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the vast Sonoran Desert of Arizona. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. In the ensuing days, it crawls through the heartbroken wasteland of a civilization at its breaking point, economically and culturally--a dystopia of lowlife, emigration from America, and laughable lifestyle alternatives.

>The Four Fingers of Death is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel. It will delight admirers of comic masterpieces like Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49, and Catch-22.