![]() ![]() There are some familiar faces, but we also wanted to pluck from unexpected corners: You’ll find literary fiction, young-adult works, graphic novels, realist tomes, some books written long ago, and others published in just the last few years. ![]() Heise, professors of English at Cornell and UCLA, respectively, both of whom study dystopian literature, and limited our selections to books with some connection to Earth. ![]() It’s in this spirit that we assembled a group of readers to put together a list of some of the greatest works of dystopian literature, as part of Vulture’s Dark Futures week. They don’t just appear in the sci-fi section, either - dystopian fiction is firmly ensconced in book-club-ready literary circles, as well. You’ll find the classics - your Orwells, Huxleys, and Atwoods - but you’ll also find a rising crop of new entries into the dystopian canon, from younger authors with fresher concerns about what, precisely, could spell our doom. At every turn in a bookstore aisle, you’re increasingly likely to stumble across a vision of our world, through the looking glass. We may or may not be living in a dystopian age, but we are certainly living in an age of dystopias. ![]()
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