Top List of Distopia / Social Science Fiction Literature

[Incal]

I have no mouth and i must scream

That's a short story (for research purposes). I remember that I read it when I was a kid. I was totally shocked. So far all sci-fi I had experienced until that moment was ala Star Wars or Star Trek, where everything is always nice and the good guys always win at the end of the show. This thing was totally different. I remember that story till this very day.

Another short story that impressed me as a kid and I will never forget is this one:

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

I would recommend :
Cormac McCarthy - The Road ( it is darker and better than movie imo)

Jose Saramago - Blindness

I have read some on your list and my favourites are "Flowers for Algernon" and "Stories of Your Life and Others."

"Make room! Make room!" is now on my list to read next, thanks

Blindness was a very good book even though Saramago has a strange style. Many of the Portuguese posters here hate him, lol. He's a commie and so I understand why but it is a good book.

[Celestia]

That's a short story (for research purposes). I remember that I read it when I was a kid. I was totally shocked. So far all sci-fi I had experienced until that moment was ala Star Wars or Star Trek, where everything is always nice and the good guys always win at the end of the show. This thing was totally different. I remember that story till this very day.

Another short story that impressed me as a kid and I will never forget is this one:

On the topic of short stories, this one always stuck with me throughout my childhood:

[Incal]

On the topic of short stories, this one always stuck with me throughout my childhood:

I think I've never read this one. Will try to find a copy.

This also had an impact on me as a boy:



I was expecting to find the typical detective tale but this one was way "darker".

[Not a Cop]

That's a short story (for research purposes). I remember that I read it when I was a kid. I was totally shocked. So far all sci-fi I had experienced until that moment was ala Star Wars or Star Trek, where everything is always nice and the good guys always win at the end of the show. This thing was totally different. I remember that story till this very day.

Another short story that impressed me as a kid and I will never forget is this one:

I was about 22 when i read it, but it made a serious impact on me, the pure horror and disgust that i felt made me physically sick for a bit. The fact that it's short only made it better, as it all the feelings it gave me were concentrated.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

I read the trilogy twice in high school. I almost never read anything twice. It's wild.

The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975.[1] The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction–influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, related to the authors' version of the Illuminati. The narrative often switches between third- and first-person perspectives in a nonlinear narrative. It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology, and Discordianism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy

[Ellethwyn]

Post your top lists of dystopian and social science fiction and similar. Maybe I can find new books to read!

I'll start:

1. Limes inferior (Janusz A. Zajdel)
2. Paradise: World in Orbit (Janusz A. Zajdel)
3. Van Troff's Cylinder (Janusz A. Zajdel)
4. The Whole Truth about Planet Xi (Janusz A. Zajdel)
5. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
6. Exhalation (Ted Chiang)
7. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
8. Mockingbird (Walter Tevis)
9. Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
10. Coming out of the Shadow (Janusz A. Zajdel)
11. MaddAddam trilogy (Margaret Atwood)
12. Blindsight (Peter Watts)
13. Inverted World (Christopher Priest)
14. Echopraxia (Peter Watts)
15. Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
16. Starfish (Peter Watts)
17. Vertical (Rafał Kosik)
18. Solar Lottery (Philip K. Dick)
19. Nest of Worlds (Marek S. Huberath)
20. Zabijcie Odkupiciela (Grzegorz Drukarczyk)
21. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
22. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Philip K. Dick)
23. 7EW (Neal Stephenson)
24. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
25. Return from the Stars (Stanisław Lem)
26. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
27. The Giver (Lois Lowry)
28. Make Room! Make Room! (Harry Harrison)
29. Neuromancer (William Gibson)
30. Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
31. Recursion (Blake Crouch)
32. Stand on Zanzibar (John Brunner)
33. The Atopia Chronicles (Matthew Mather)
34. Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
35. Vox (Christina Dalcher)
36. Skin (Liam Brown)
37. Futu.re (Dmitry Glukhovsky)
38. Rejoice. A Knife to the Heart (Steven Erikson)

(I've included books with my rating of 6/10 and above, not all)

Wow, you've read a ton of them.

I've only read a few... I like to read non-fiction mostly.

A Clockwork Orange
The Children of Men
The Giver
Brave New World
1984


I'm going to order Flowers for Algernon.

[Incal]

I was about 22 when i read it, but it made a serious impact on me, the pure horror and disgust that i felt made me physically sick for a bit. The fact that it's short only made it better, as it all the feelings it gave me were concentrated.

I remember that during the 90's a computer game about this story was made. I didn't have the chance to play it back in the day but some years ago I discovered a downloadable version on cellphone. It was really hard though, mind bending.

[Incal]

12. Blindsight (Peter Watts)

Just noticed this. Respect. That's the last hard sci-fi book I read. Though it's argument is not revolutionary (many Rendezvous with Rama elements. Another must) I found all the characters pretty interesting and original. I love ensemble casts.

I can see you've also read the sequel. Is it as good as the first one?

[Manifest]

Just noticed this. Respect. That's the last hard sci-fi book I read. Though it's argument is not revolutionary (many Rendezvous with Rama elements. Another must) I found all the characters pretty interesting and original. I love ensemble casts.

I can see you've also read the sequel. Is it as good as the first one?

Nah.. It's still good hard SF book, but the storyline is less immersive compared to Blindsight imo.