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List of dystopian literature

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This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature. A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction states that dystopian works depict a negative view of "the way the world is supposedly going in order to provide urgent propaganda for a change in direction."[1][2]

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  5. ^ Kennedy, Randall (2003). Interracial Intimacies. New York: Pantheon Books. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-375-40255-5.
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  18. ^ HO, KOON-KI TOMMY (1987). "Cat Country: A Dystopian Satire". Modern Chinese Literature. 3 (1/2): 71–89. ISSN 8755-8963. JSTOR 41492507.
  19. ^ Cornis-Pope Marcel & John Neubauer (2004). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Volume 3. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 2004. p. 183. ISBN 90-272-3455-8. ...the dystopic satire Válka s mloky (The War With The Newts)...
  20. ^ " a feminist novelist called Katherine Burdekin published under a male pseudonym, Murray Constantine, an anti-fascist dystopia with the title Swastika Night.."Alkeline van Lenning, Marrie Bekker, Ine Vanwesenbeeck, (p.88) Feminist Utopias in a Post Modern Era. Tilburg University Press, 1997. ISBN 9036197473
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  22. ^ Booker, M. Keith (2002). The Post-utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 50. ISBN 0-313-32165-5. Invitation also resembles other absurdist dystopias of the 1930s, such as Ruthven Todd's Over the Mountain (1939) and Rex Warner's The Wild Goose Chase.
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  28. ^ "The Space Merchants describes an archetypal dystopia, an America choked by the waste products of consumerism..." George Mann, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2012 ISBN 1-78033-704-3 (p. 1983).
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  33. ^ "Michael Frayn's comedy has more usually taken an anti-utopian turn. He has written one explicitly dystopian novel, A Very Private Life...", "Whitehall Farces" Patrick Parrinder, London Review of Books, October 8, 1992.
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  73. ^ "The Host". Stephenie Meyer. May 6, 2008. Retrieved January 18, 2023.
  74. ^ "Gemma Malley – The Declaration". www.gemmamalley.com. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  75. ^ "Gemma Malley – The Resistance". www.gemmamalley.com. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  76. ^ Karen Brooks-Reese: "Zombies Rise in Teen Lit", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 26, 2009
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  78. ^ "The Bone Season". www.boneseasonbooks.com. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
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  82. ^ "Wool", a dystopian series about a group of underground people who get all of their information about the outside world through a single, digital screen...""Self-published e-book author: 'Most of my months are six-figure months'". CNN. September 7, 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
  83. ^ "Books". allycondie.com. December 11, 2008. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  84. ^ Carpenter, Susan (August 23, 2010). "Book review: 'Mockingjay'". Los Angeles Times. Fans aren't likely to be disappointed
  85. ^ Tjala (March 2011). "Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness – review". theguardian.com. Monsters of Men was a real thrill to read, with a cliffhanger at the end of nearly every chapter.
  86. ^ "Rossi's YA Dystopian Romance Lands at Warner Brothers". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
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