19 May 2017

Dystopian/Utopian Fiction? Depends on your point of view...

We have been celebrating books of a Science Fiction, Dystopian, Utopian and world order questioning nature this month with a display of a host of new resources to make you stop and think... 

We were inspired by the new Naomi Alderman title The Power; a gripping story of how the world would change if power was in the hands of young women





Read this Guardian article for more information: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/25/dystopian-dreams-how-feminist-science-fiction-predicted-the-future

Come to the Library today and borrow the following classics that inspired the recent explosion of modern Dystopian fiction:












And many more like it, including: 

  • Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  • Maze Runner by James Dashner
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • The Big Lie by Julie Mayhew
  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Unwind by Neal Shusterman
  • Gone by Michael Grant
  • Uglies by Scott Westerfield
  • Divergent by Veronica Roth
  • The Book of Ivy Amy Engel
  • Matched by Ally Condie
  • Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
  • The Jewel by Amy Ewing
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • High Rise by J. G. Ballard
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster
  • The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
  • The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • The Trial by Franz Kafka 
  • V for Vendetta by Alan Moore