Our list of the top five best dystopian novels is a collection of some of the most thought-provoking science fiction ever written.
Of the books on this list, Fahrenheit 451 is my absolute favorite. Thanks for the post and inspiring me to track down a copy.
I loved The Road, but it is not a dystopian novel. It is a post-apocalyptic novel. It’s like they grabbed the 4 best known dystopian books then struggled to find a 5th and just went “fuck it.”
A good but unsurprising list. That said, the article begins poorly (my emphasis):
Utopia is the state of a civilization’s peace and prosperity that seems impossible to realize in real life, and it is the backdrop for many great works of science fiction like the “Star Trek” media franchise.
I’d say there are startlingly few utopian SF settings or societies. Early Star Trek certainly counts, though more recently it returns to a more cynical sort of stealth capitalist/corporatist framework (Picard). Apart from Banks’ The Culture books I can’t recall any recent genuinely SF utopian visions—can you think of any?
