Recs if you like The Year of the Flood...
Not Only Orwell - Dystopias written by women
Everyone knows George Orwell or Aldous Huxley. Their works are considered to be the staples of dystopia stories.
But are they?
Most of the people know Octavia E. Butler or Margaret Atwood. They showed the feminine side of dystopia. But this subgenre of science fiction have much more to offer.
Yes, you find here all the famous ladies too but I'll do my best to find even more. So I hope the fellow Boundlings will help too💗
"The government wouldn't do that!" Yes, they would
Books and reading are political.
More veggies in my fiction
This list features books with vegetarian and vegan foods and characters. For everyone who is tired of reading about meat dishes described in meticulous detail and instead wants to read about veggie food🫶🏻
New recommendations are always welcome!
The Earth Remembers Us
Books about how nature endures and carries traces of us. These stories explore our connection to the natural world through decay, memory, and renewal.
Climate Change Novels
Apocalypse for the Girls, Gays, and Theys
Stories of survival and the end of the world from the POV of queer folks and women.*
*note, if there’s a cis-man POV in one of the listed books, there will also be a non-cis male main character as well
💬OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS. Just comment and I will add.
The Future Isn't Looking Too Bright...
Dystopian books that may feel too close to home for us, but also have a lesson or two about human nature.
Canadian Literature
I wish we could make communal lists, because this would be a helpful one to be able to ask others to contribute to
CBC Canada Reads Contenders #2 - 2012 to 2021
Fifty more books from the second ten years of Canada Reads, an annual "Battle of the Books" run by the CBC (Canada's national broadcaster). Each year five Canadian celebrities step in to champion one Canadian book in a series of televised debates/discussions to see which book will come out on top.
Take Me Back to the Wasteland
Books with similar themes to the Fallout series: critiquing rampant American consumerism and greed; deconstructing 1950s-era conservatism; post-apocalyptic road trip; man vs. God; long-term effects of authoritarianism; morally gray choices or “morally gray” choices; being locked inside underground (or in space) indefinitely; retro-futuristic technology; nuclear weapons and fallout; cosmic horror; or, ultimately, being the baddest motherfucker with a baseball bat.
Distopias
the end of the world is near and how society organizes itself will determine our future
Atwood all together
Margaret Atwood's fiction, and poetry
Atwood All the Time
All of Margaret Atwood’s novels!
mothers of sci-fi dystopia
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