Fagre nye verden (1932)

1. 774
   1984 af George Orwell (chrisharpe, zasmine, MinaKelly, li33ieg, haraldo, Ludi_Ling, Waldstein)

   zasmine: For Orwell was inspired by it. And Orwell's 1984 is as much of a prize as it.

   li33ieg: 1984, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451: 3 essential titles that remind us of the need to keep our individual souls pure.

   Ludi_Ling: Really, the one cannot be mentioned without the other. Actually, apart from the dystopian subject matter, they are very different stories, but serve as a great counterpoint to one another.

   Waldstein: It's essential to read Huxley's and Orwell's books together. Both present the ultimate version of the totalitarian state, but there the similarities end. While Orwell argues in favour of hate and fear, Huxley suggests that pleasure and drugs would be far more effective as controlling forces. Who was the more prescient prophet? That's what every reader should decide for him- or herself.… (mere)

2. 511
   Fahrenheit 451 af Ray Bradbury (phoenix7g, meggyweg, Babou_wk, haraldo)

   Babou_wk: Contre-utopie, société future où l'unique but de la vie est le bonheur. Toute pratique requérant de la réflexion est bannie.

3. 282
   A clockwork orange af Anthony Burgess (MinaKelly)
4. 180
   Tjenerindens fortælling af Margaret Atwood (mcenroeucsb)

   mcenroeucsb: Both are benchmarks for dystopian literature.

5. 151
   Jonas er udvalgt af Lois Lowry (afyfe)
6. 130
   Gensyn med fagre nye verden af Aldous Huxley (pyrocow)
7. 163
   Vi af Yevgeny Zamyatin (hippietrail, tehran)

   hippietrail: The original dystopian novel from which both Huxley and Orwell drew inspiration.

   tehran: Brave New World was largely inspired by Zamyatin's We.

8. 60
   Kammerat Napoleon af George Orwell (sturlington)
9. 71
   Never Let Me Go af Kazuo Ishiguro (sanddancer)
10. 60
    Uvejret af William Shakespeare (Sylak)

    Sylak: Caliban in The Tempest has many parallels with John the Savage in Brave New World.

11. 50
    Drømmer androider om elektriske får? af Philip K. Dick (mcenroeucsb)
12. 50
    The Machine Stops af E. M. Forster (artturnerjr, KayCliff)

    artturnerjr: If you read only one other dystopian SF story, make it this one (well, you should read 1984, too, but you knew that already, didn't you?).

13. 40
    Fagre nye elektronverden af Ira Levin (KayCliff)
14. 129
    Punkt 22 af Joseph Heller (fundevogel)
15. 30
    Daedalus; or, Science and the Future af J. B. S. Haldane (leigonj)

    leigonj: Haldane's ideas of eugenics and ectogenesis, which are laid out alongside others including world government and psychoactive drugs, strongly influenced Huxley's novel.

16. 30
    Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang af Kate Wilhelm (rat_in_a_cage)

    rat_in_a_cage: Hinweis auf Rückentext bei »Hier sangen früher Vögel«.

17. 30
    Player Piano af Kurt Vonnegut (Anonym bruger)
18. 86
    Stranger in a Strange Land (Uncut Edition) af Robert A. Heinlein (meggyweg)
19. 10
    Djævlene fra Loudun af Aldous Huxley (John_Vaughan)
20. 21
    Men Like Gods af H. G. Wells (Sylak)

    Sylak: Basically a parody of Wells' own book published seven years earlier.

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