Anti-Utopias I've Read

Submitted by Arctic on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:57
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  • 1984 (Orwell)
  • Brave New World/Brave New World Revisited (Huxley)
  • Animal Farm (Orwell)
  • We (Zamyatin)
  • Anthem (Rand)
  • The World Inside (Silverberg)
  • Walden Two (Skinner)
  • The HandMaid's Tale (Atwood)
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The first three are pretty much required, I think.

We is Russian, very mathmatical.
Anthem: Experimental writing style, very effective.
TWI: Classic Silverberg

Feel free to disagree with Walden Two being an ANTI-utpoia. Skinner would have you beleive so.

If you only read one feminist anti-utopia this year, read the Handmaid's Tale.

taryn07/13/1999

try This Perfect Day by Ira Levin if you haven't already...

bertie01/18/2000

The philosophy behind WALDEN TWO is spelled out in Skinner's BEYOND FREEDOM AND DIGNITY - now there's a frightening book.