Dystopias and Social Critiques discussion
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I have mentioned "The Unit" a lot and it doesn't seem to get much response. I though it was great.
I read the Unit and I really liked it. It wasn't one of my favorites, like, The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, Matched, Unwind, or Birthmarked, but it was a good read. I'm really on a dystopian kick right now, so that's all I'm reading, and I'm enjoying it!

some good (depressing) stuff out there.

I guess I'd put Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America on this list. And it's one of my favorite stories!



I haven't seen Shades of Grey getting a lot of attention, either, and I thought it was very well done. I'm looking forward to the sequel.


Books mentioned in this topic
Shades of Grey (other topics)The Shadow of the Gloom-World (other topics)
The Unit (other topics)
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (other topics)
Yarn (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
Greg Bear (other topics)Jon Armstrong (other topics)
At any rate, someone asked the authors: What's the best book you've read in the last 10 years that we've never heard of? Greg Bear answered: Yarn by Jon Armstrong.
Yarn looks pretty fascinating, and it's made the 2010 Locus Recommended Reading List. And yet, I've never heard of it, never seen it discussed?!
Being a "fashion dystopia," I thought it was the kind of book that would interest this group. Which leads to the question - any dystopic/post-apocalyptic books that you know of or love that are unusual, uncommon, or obscure?