Giraffe LBC - The List of Potentials!

#Giraffe LBC

Dystopian Literature - (Definition via WIKIPEDIA)

The utopia and its offshoot, the dystopia, are genres of literature that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world, or utopia, as the setting for a novel. Dystopian fiction is the opposite: creation of a nightmare world, or dystopia. 

Many novels combine both, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of two possible futures. Both utopias and dystopias are commonly found in science fiction and other speculative fiction genres, and arguably are by definition a type of speculative fiction.

Book the First: To Be Decided!


I'm a great one for recommending different genera's and then failed utterly and totally to come up with any options!


Knowing what I'm like, I've complied the following as inspiration for book choices for #GiraffeLBC!

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Richard Bachman The Running Man (1982)
John Wyndham The Chrysalids (1955)

Yevgeny Zamyatin We (1921)
Terry Brooks Armageddon’s Children (2006)
PD James The Children of Men (1992)
H.G. Wells The Time Machine (1895)
William Gibson Neuromancer (1984)
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games(2008-2010)
Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake/The Year of the Flood(2003 - 2009)

Aldous Huxley Brave New World (1932) 
Jack London Iron Heel (1908)

George Orwell 1984 (1949)
William Golding Lord of the Flies (1954)
Margaret Atwood Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

Check out the following time line from GoodReads.com

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Good Reads

Just a very quick word to say 'hi' and 'thanks' to all those I'm linked with on GoodReads - while I've been a bit useless with the reviews, I'm really enjoying reading all of your thoughts!

So 'Hi!'

and

'Thanks for the bookie love!'

And I will be starting to do some reviews this weekend...after I fix the blog...and catch up on emails...and tidy up my twitter...

So yeah, first thing this weekend *ahem*

p.s. Happy Roald Dahl day (yesterday) and Agatha Christie's 120th (today) !!