Dystopic societies / Dystopia

[gblnking]

I’m looking for books with a "Logan’s Run” feel. Preferably Books on futuristic dystopian societies authored within the last few years. Any ideas?

[Nicolas]

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi maybe?

I haven't read it yet so I can't say much about the book itself, but it was generally very well received. Wikipedia page here.

[Hitmouse]

It might be worth extending your timescale by a few decades to get some choice works. In terms of dystopias there is a lot that is better and deeper and broader in scope than Logan's Run. It was a major theme of the New Wave SF but in one form or another was a major preoccupation of 20th century lit. You will find good essays on this in the major SF encyclopaedias.

Off the top of my head:

The biggies:
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
1984 George Orwell

also check out Franz Kafka

More contemporary:
Neuromancer etc William Gibson
High Rise, Cocaine Nights, Super-Cannes etc etc JG Ballard
Lots of stuff by Richard Morgan
The Godwhale TJ Bass
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Lots of stuff by Iain M Banks
Lots of stuff by Michel Houellebecq
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Attwood

Films:
Metropolis
Brazil
Sleeper
Matrix
Soylent Green
THX 1138
Akira


Comics:
2000AD esp Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog

[Chrysippus]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is an obvious choice (although, as with Hitmouse's list, this isn't exactly recent). Maybe We by Yevgeny Zamyatin will also be of interest (although that book has a lot less science in it than some of the others mentioned here).

[BettyCross]

I’m looking for books with a "Logan’s Run” feel. Preferably Books on futuristic dystopian societies authored within the last few years. Any ideas?

Is it permissible to mention it here? If not, email me at betty_bator@yahoo.com and we'll talk.

Betty Cross

[winterkill]

Alastair Reynold's stuff tends to be dystopian, especially the Revelation Space novels.

[ravenlynne]

Battle Royale...similar to hunger games but FAR more bloody with a bit more tech.
Children of Men
Running Man
A Scanner Darkly
Lathe of Heaven

[PogiRunner]

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi maybe?

I haven't read it yet so I can't say much about the book itself, but it was generally very well received. Wikipedia page here.

I recommend The Windup Girl.

I found it to be thrilling, thought-provoking, suspenseful, and very frightening.

Bacigalupi pulls no punches here when exposing the dark side of human nature. If seeking escapist fiction or a clearly defined good versus evil tale, you may be disappointed.