Recommend some dystopian nightmare vision of the future books

Well that’s funny. The first book is a 99p kindle daily deal today.

~buy~

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Some suggestions that haven’t been made already.

Most Philip K Dick will get you there, also Harlan Ellison’s short stories - ‘I Have No Mouth…’, ‘Repent Harlequin’, ‘Knox’… Ballard of course - I’d go for High Rise.

Specific recs:
Harry Harrison - Make Room! Make Room! (overpopulation; filmed as Soylent Green but the book is different - Soylent Green _isn’t people)
Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker (1980; post-nuclear war UK told in a semi-invented language)
Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1953; overpopulation, corporate power, consumerism, advertising)
John Brunner - The Sheep Look Up (environmental degradation)
John Brunner -Stand On Zanzibar (1968, overpopulation - incredibly sharp in its predictions of 2010)
Walter M Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959; post-nuclear monks)

#satire

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Hellstar by Michael Reaves.

One of my favourite ever books and often overlooked in this sort of writing. Loved it.

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