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Poll Question: Choose between these 5 dystopian novels
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    Posted: February 17 2021 at 11:09
Choose between these five novels. I deliberately left out "1984", "Brave New World", "Fahrenheit 451" and "A Clockwork Orange".


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I am actually pretty certain the Strugatski brothers, Zamatin and Lem won't get many votes (if any at all). Who reads Russian or Polish authors?


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I re-read Zamyatin just a few months ago.
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

I am actually pretty certain the Strugatski brothers, Zamatin and Lem won't get many votes (if any at all). Who reads Russian or Polish authors?

More than you think. We are not all philistines, you know.
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I voted for Lem. Who says a dystopian novel can't be funny?


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Phillip K. Dick - Man in the High Castle (from this list)

P.D. James - The Children of Men and Cormac McCarthy - The Road are a couple of other favorites that also pop into my mind.  

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OF this list I've only read We and THT. 
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PKD.

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Cormac McCarthy - The Road

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I love PKD and Vonnegut, but I went with We.

With Atwood I do highly recommend Oryx and Crake for those who haven't read it..

As for The Road, it's such a great post-apocalyptic novel. One that I thought might be on the list is Never Let Me Go (Blindness is related). A Canticle for Leibowitz is one I liked very much.

One I've been wanting to read is The City & the City by China Miéville.
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Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale.
Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle.

Both of theses are incredible but TMITHC is the ultimate one for today’s vote!
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I am very surprised there is not more love for "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub". It is in my opinion one of the most brilliant works of Stanisław Lem (who in my opinion is the greatest SF-writer period). No-one trusts anyone, and the poor new agent trying to find out what his mission is ( "Verify. Search. Destroy. Incite. Inform. Over and out. On the nth day nth hour sector n subsector n rendezvous with N.") gets more and more desperate.


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Can't really vote since I haven't read these (although I think I have a copy of We), but Philip K. Dick would be the highest on my to-read list. I've read a lot of him, not yet this one -- maybe because the cover art of the Finnish translation is ugly: a hamburger with tiny Japanese and German flags on it. LOL

I also have liked many novels of Stanislaw Lem and a couple ones of brothers Strugatski, but I don't think the mentioned ones have been translated into Finnish -- too bad!

As much as I appreciate Atwood, I probably won't read The Handmaid's Tale, already familiar from a film and a TV series (which I haven't been watching full-time). But if the question was "Which one you consider the most significant", I'd say this.


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PKDick -Man ...but the only other one from that list I read was Memoirs -Lem.......both many years ago.
I was into a Lem thing about 30 years ago and PK Dick from even earlier...read most of their work.
I rate Memoirs and Man  about the same; both are very good.
The Investigation by Lem is one of my favorite 'mystery' novels of all time. I have read it 3 times .


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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

PKDick -Man ...but the only other one from that list I read was Memoirs -Lem.......both many years ago.
I was into a Lem thing about 30 years ago and PK Dick from even earlier...read most of their work.
I rate Memoirs and Man  about the same; both are very good.
The Investigation by Lem is one of my favorite 'mystery' novels of all time. I have read it 3 times .

"Chain of Chance" (original Polish title "Katar" meaning "catarrh") is an even better mystery novel by Lem.


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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

PKDick -Man ...but the only other one from that list I read was Memoirs -Lem.......both many years ago.
I was into a Lem thing about 30 years ago and PK Dick from even earlier...read most of their work.
I rate Memoirs and Man  about the same; both are very good.
The Investigation by Lem is one of my favorite 'mystery' novels of all time. I have read it 3 times .

"Chain of Chance" (original Polish title "Katar" meaning "catarrh") is an even better mystery novel by Lem.

Like that one also....I still have paper back copies of both . The Investigation was weird in an occult manner so it intrigued me a bit more.
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Choose between these five novels. I deliberately left out "1984", "Brave New World", "Fahrenheit 451" and "A Clockwork Orange".
Great...all my favourites. Unfortunately I haven't read any of the others. Unhappy


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