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Sep 01, 2014 03:31PM
Having read John Shirly's A Song Called Youth trilogy, Ready Player One, The Stars, My Destination, and Terms of Enlistment I would like some recommendations for adult oriented Action/Dystpoia novels. Any pointer?
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1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Road, The Running Man
The Long Walk, Ender's Game, Death of Grass
White Horse, the Maddaddam trilogy, The Handmaiden's Tale, The Windup Girl, Jennifer Government, Animal Farm, Atlas Shrugged
The Stand, by Stephen King, was first published in 1978. Even though it was a huge commercial success, Mr. King was disappointed, because he considered it to be incomplete. More than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition was published in 1990. It includes more than 500 pages of material deleted from the original book, along with material that Mr. King added as he reworded the manuscript. New characters were introduced and familiar ones endowed with new depths. Both the beginning and ending were changed.
The Stand is now considered one of Stephen King's finest works.
Jim wrote: "The Stand, by Stephen King, was first published in 1978. Even though it was a huge commercial success, Mr. King was disappointed, because he considered it to be incomplete. More than 150,000 words ..."I recently read the extended edition. Unfortunately for my taste it descends into a horror/paranormal tale as it describes the fight between good and evil. The first half was excellent as a dystopian catastrophe and there is no doubt Mr King is an outstanding writer. I did not want a ghost tale though.
The dystopian politics that begin to be explained and outlined with the survivors are discounted by feelings, dreams and eerie goings on. Overall I was disappointed for a read in this genre. Good story though - can't compare it with the original version in its extended form as I did not read that.
Hugh Howey's Wool series is great and I've also recently tripped on indie writer, Therine Knite, whose wrote the first instalment of her an action/dystopia series called
Othella: there's plenty of action and she paints a grim future dystopia.
Othella: there's plenty of action and she paints a grim future dystopia.
