List of Post Apocalyptic Dystopian Books

[Lily]

Here is a starting List. I am sorting them by catagories soon. Just wanted to get the list started. Please add your ideas and I will add it to the master list.

Categories:

1. Avoiding the Encroaching Apocalypse: Any Given Doomsday

2. Surviving the Apocalypse: The Strain


3. Post-apocalypse or dystopian(Feminist): Ice Song, The Handmaid's Tale, Lilith's Brood, A Brother's Price, The Windup Girl, The Gate to Women's Country



4. Post-apocalypse (It came from space): Lilith's Brood, 2012: The War for Souls


5. Post-apocalypse (It came from genetic engineering): Aftertime


6. Post-apocalypse (It came from viral engineering):Dead Witch Walking, Feed,The Stand



7. Post-apocalypse (It came from nature): Girlfriend in a Coma

8. Post-apocalypse (After the bombs or war): Dante Valentine Series #1-5, Lamentation, Lilith's Brood, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Mind Storm, Aftertime, The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

9. Post-apocalypse (Magical) Illona Andrews, A Kate Daniels Magic Series, 5 Books Collection: Magic Slays, Bleeds, Strikes, Burns and Bites, Dante Valentine Series #1-5, Lamentation, 2012: The War for Souls

10. Post-apocalypse: [God(s) or prophasized]: The Stand, BLACK ROAD 2012_

11. Post-apocalypse (Zombie or Vamps) Enclave, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Feed, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War,The Strain, Ex-Heroes, Ex-Patriots


12. Post-apocalypse: (Some other category): The Suicide Collectors, Swan Song

13. Dystopian: Black and White, Ice Song, Under the Dome

14. Dystopian Steampunk: Neverwhere, The Iron Duke, The Iron Thorn

15. Dystopian Cyber/Space punk: Grimspace, The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset The Windup Girl

[Carolyn F.]

Thanks for the list Lily! Would the The Iron Duke be Dystopian Steampunk?

[Lily]

Yes sir ree.

Carolyn F. wrote: "Thanks for the list Lily! Would the The Iron Duke be Dystopian Steampunk?"

[Jen]

is Under the Dome part of this genre?

[Carolyn F.]

I've never read the book, but don't things go crazy in the dome? Are they in the dome because things are bad outside of it?

[Lily]

Jenn wrote: "is Under the Dome part of this genre?"

I have not read it, but from skimming others reviews, at least one person has it catagorized as dystopian.

So I would say yes.

Now another book for my tbr list.

[Charlotte (Buried in Books)]

The Hunger Games trilogy - post Bombs or War? Or would that count for Feminist?

[Lily]

Charlotte, great question. I read the trilogy a while ago and I would say that book is a perfect example of how a book or series could fit into more then one catagory. Sometimes the difference between one and the other isn't exclusive of crystal clear. I just copied the definitions I put on the other thread just FYI.

To answer your question, Hunger Games could qualify under post war/bombs, or dystopian or cyberpunk (IMO). As far as feminist, it is a story that exemplifies a strong admirable young women and that could be feminist. Generally when I think of feminist post apoc. I think of books exploring how gender roles changed devloved or evolved after the apocalypse. I was a women's studies major, and one of the fun things was choosing any book and exploring the gender roles, and power as it relates to that and writing my take on it. If you find the hunger games an empowering series for females, then sure, place it there.

Here are some definitions as copied from Wikipedia, and I just found a definition of feminist dystopia for you.

Feminist Dystopia: Feminist Dystopia http://womenshistory.about.com/od/fem...

Often, a feminist science fiction novel is more of a dystopia. Dystopic science fiction imagines a world gone terribly wrong, exploring the most extreme possible consequences of current society’s problems. In a feminist dystopia, the inequality of society or oppression of women is exaggerated or intensified to highlight the need for change in contemporary society


Apocalyptic fiction: is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, Technological Singularity, Dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, Divine judgement, Ecological disaster, resource depletion or some other general disaster.

Post-apocalyptic fiction: is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten (or mythologized). Post-apocalyptic stories often take place in an agrarian, non-technological future world, or a world where only scattered elements of technology remain. There is a considerable degree of blurring between this form of science fiction and that which deals with dystopias.

Dystopian fiction: Dystopia is defined as a society characterized by poverty, squalor, or oppression. Most authors of dystopian fiction explore at least one reason why things are that way.

Dystopias usually extrapolate elements of contemporary society and are read by many as political warnings. Many purported utopias reveal a dystopian character by suppressing justice, freedom and happiness. Samuel Butler's Erewhon can be seen as a dystopia because of the way sick people are punished as criminals while thieves are cured in hospitals, which the inhabitants of Erewhon see as natural and right, i.e. utopian (as mocked in Voltaire's Candide.) Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World is a more subtle and more threatening dystopia because he projected into the year 2540 industrial and social changes he perceived in 1931, leading to a fascist hierarchy of society, industrially successful by exploiting a slave class conditioned and drugged to obey and enjoy their servitude. George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel about a coercive and impoverished totalitarian society, conditioning its population through propaganda rather than drugs. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale describes a future North America governed by strict religious rules which only the privileged dare defy.

Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s.[1] Steampunk involves a setting where steam power is still widely used—usually Victorian era Britain—that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology or futuristic innovations as Victorians may have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, art, etc. This technology may include such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne.

Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace's Analytical engine.

Cyberpunk: is a postmodern and science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.[5] Cyberpunk works are well situated within postmodern literature.[6]

Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than the far-future settings or galactic vistas. The settings are usually post-industrial dystopias but tend to be marked by extraordinary cultural ferment and the use of technology in ways never anticipated by its creators ("the street finds its own uses for things"). Much of the genre's atmosphere echoes film noir, and written works in the genre often use techniques from detective fiction.[9]

"Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body." – Lawrence Person[10]