Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 20:14     Subject: Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
I loved The Ministry of the Future.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 20:03     Subject: Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee. Brilliant book.

1984 is brilliant too if you have never read it. About manipulating language and more.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 17:38     Subject: Re:Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
OP here. Thank you for the suggestions! I have read a lot of those, but there's also a fair number that I've never even heard of so I'm really excited about this.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 17:01     Subject: Re:Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
Station 11? The Memory of Earth?
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 17:00     Subject: Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
The Stand Stephen King
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 16:53     Subject: Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
Here are some previous threads that might be helpful:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1190776.page#27005307


https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1102650.page
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 16:44     Subject: Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
Andy Weir also wrote Artemis if you haven’t read it. Not as good as the other two in my opinion but still good.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 16:42     Subject: Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
Anonymous wrote:I mean this is an incredibly vast category.

The Expanse Series
Dungeon Crawler Carl
All of Scalzi but Old Man's War particularly.
Ancillary Justice
The Light Brigade
Murderbot
Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers
Three Body Problem
Doomsday Book

I preferred Psalm for the Wild Built by Chamber’s. I would add Locked series by Scalzi. Wool series by Howey. And, maybe, We Are Bob.



Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 16:42     Subject: Re:Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 16:39     Subject: Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
Anonymous wrote:The Broken Earth books by N.K. Jemisin.


I was thinking these, too.

Also the young adult series Scythe is very very well done. My teen rarely faces about books but couldn't stop talking about this one until the whole family read it. We basically had an extended family book club at Christmas.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 16:34     Subject: Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
The Broken Earth books by N.K. Jemisin.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 16:32     Subject: Re:Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
Olivia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, parable of the talents, and Kindred. All fantastic and we have the same taste in books
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 16:30     Subject: Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
I mean this is an incredibly vast category.

The Expanse Series
Dungeon Crawler Carl
All of Scalzi but Old Man's War particularly.
Ancillary Justice
The Light Brigade
Murderbot
Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers
Three Body Problem
Doomsday Book



Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 16:21     Subject: Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
Anonymous wrote:I feel like I've read every book in this genre so I'm always looking for more

For science fiction
I've read the Adrian Tchaikovsky series
I've read the Martian and Project Hail Mary
And of the two I really, really loved project Hail Mary
I've read the dune series
I've read all the books by I can't remember the author, but one of the books was a mote in God's eye
Multiple other series I can't think of the names because they're not inmy audiobook library
I've also read science fiction books from the old authors like Isaac Asmov, Ray, Bradbury, etc.

For dystopian, I've read
Lucifer's hammer
The road
Station 13
And a number of a YA series to include, of course, the hunger games, and many more.

If anybody has any recommendations, I will take them.


The front page of the Washington Post…

OK, if it has to be a novel:

- E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops.”

- John Christopher’s Tripods books.

- Anything by M. John Harrison.

- Andre Norton’s “Catseye” books.

- Harry Harrison’s “Make Room, Make Room.”

- Isaac Asimov’s “Caves of Steel,” if you’ve missed that.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2026 16:13     Subject: Does anybody have any science fiction or dystopian novel recommendations?
I feel like I've read every book in this genre so I'm always looking for more

For science fiction
I've read the Adrian Tchaikovsky series
I've read the Martian and Project Hail Mary
And of the two I really, really loved project Hail Mary
I've read the dune series
I've read all the books by I can't remember the author, but one of the books was a mote in God's eye
Multiple other series I can't think of the names because they're not inmy audiobook library
I've also read science fiction books from the old authors like Isaac Asmov, Ray, Bradbury, etc.

For dystopian, I've read
Lucifer's hammer
The road
Station 13
And a number of a YA series to include, of course, the hunger games, and many more.

If anybody has any recommendations, I will take them.