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submitted 10 months ago by minorsecond@lemm.ee to c/books@lemmy.ml

I'm nearly finished rereading 1984 and my appetite for dystopian books is whetted. What are some other great ones I should check out?

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[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Also by Huxley: Ape and Essence. Also a good read. Different though, but still dystopian.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Fuck. How could I forget mentioning it? I love this book, and the political implications of the story - with powerful States being nuked into mutants, and the little NZ in the middle of nowhere, completely forgotten, is saved by its own lack of relevance. The whole idea of a story within another story, with non-human apes doing human activities (to drive the idea that we are behaving like the other apes too) was genial.

Thanks for mentioning it!

[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

No problem. I'm glad you liked it as well. I definitely read it right after brave new world around high school age. I should really re-read it. It's been a long time.

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