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[lizzybennet]

I crave some good (or bad, whatever) dystopian literature. Any recommendations? Mix in some time travel for extra fun!

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[polgaramalfoy.livejournal.com]

Philip K. Dick is always good for a thoroughly dystopian view of humanity. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is much more intense than the movie version (Blade Runner for those following along at home).

Not sure it qualifies as dystopian, exactly, since it's historical fiction, but a nicely depressing time travel book is Connie Willis's Doomsday Book.

Oh, and then there's Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

[mysteena.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recommends! I've read Electric Sheep, but the other two sound like excellent suggestions. I'd forgotten about The Road and I certain do want to read it. Doomsday Book sounds good too. Is that the same Doomsday Book from British history, the census one?

[themenow.livejournal.com]

Doomsday Book - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Book_%28novel%29 Looks like it's a fiction book and not the British history one. I was interested too and had to go look it up.

[mysteena.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the fiction book is based on, or features, the historical one?

[themenow.livejournal.com]

Something about historians travel through time to observe history first hand.