20th Century Dystopia Literature 1950 – 1960
Dystopian Literature 20th Century – 1950 -1960 – With Orwell in the previous decade setting the newest standard for Dystopian Literature, WW2 in the rear view mirror and continuing growth of technology. This decade promised a fun time, people let there hair down, you know the swinging sixties and all. However for the Dystopian writer, you could argue with nuclear annihilation hanging over your head, proxy wars being fought across the globe and the struggle between the East and West offered an entirely different level of possibilities. This decade sees Dystopia’s produced from the minds of great writers like Ray Bradbury at a frightening level. What’s the most frightening however is in the 1960s what the writers warned about as fantasy has, in fact, become today’s reality in many facets of modern life.
Book Title: Player Piano
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Published: 18 August 1952
Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
Language: English
Pages: 296
Good reads rating: 3.87/5
About: It portrays an oppressed world of computerization, depicting the negative effect it can have on personal satisfaction. Player Piano is set sooner rather than later, after a third world war. While most Americans were battling abroad, the country’s supervisors and specialists confronted a drained workforce.
Book Title: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Published: October 19, 1953
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Language: English
Pages: 158
Good reads rating: 3.98/5
About: Fahrenheit 451 is a tragic book, which was composed by Ray Bradbury an American author. The lead character, Guy Montag, is a firefighter who ends up disappointed with his job of blue-penciling writing and devastating learning, in the long run leaving his place of employment and subscribing to the conservation of artistic and social compositions.
Book Title: Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Published: 1953
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Language: English
Pages: 51
Good reads rating: 3.52/5
About: In the novel Crime treated in all respects mercifully by the state and conditions in jail are quite better than those among the populace everywhere, prompting a justifiably high recidivism rate. Be that as it may, she doesn’t wish to bite the dust and the two start a sentiment.
Book Title: One
Author: David Karp
Published: 1953
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Language: English
Pages: 220
Good reads rating: 4.13/5
About: One describes a public on its way to self-declared flawlessness, which comprises in discord having been found and each native distinguishing his or her own advantages with those of the “kind State”. Where a man who trusts himself to be a functioning supporter of the framework is discovered liable of “apostasy”
Book Title: The space merchant
Author: Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth
Published: May 18, 1953
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Language: English
Pages: 179
Good reads rating: 3.87/5
About: The space merchant is a sci-fi novel. The business has taken the political position in the spot of government. Advertising has turned out to be massively forceful and by a wide margin the best-paid calling. Through advertising, the open is continually into feeling that every one of the items set available to improve personal satisfaction.
Book Title: The Caves of Steel
Author: Isaac Asimov
Published: February 4, 1954
Publisher: Doubleday
Language: English
Pages: 224
Good reads rating: 4.16/5
About: This book is a sci-fi that depicts supported an Idea. The Spacer world is rich have low populace thickness, and use robot work intensely. In the meantime, Earth is overpopulated, and exacting standards against robots have passed. The book’s focal wrongdoing is a homicide, which happens before the novel opens.
Book Title: Lord of the Flies
Author: William Golding
Published: 17 September 1954
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Language: English
Pages: 222
Good reads rating: 3.67/5
About: The book centers on a gathering of British young men stuck on an uninhabited island and their awful endeavor to oversee them. The main survivors are young men in their center adolescence or preadolescence. Since Ralph seems in charge of uniting every one of the survivors, he promptly directions some experts over the different young men and immediately chose their “boss.”
Book Title: The Chrysalids
Author: John Wyndham
Published: 1955
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Language: English
Pages: 208
Good reads rating: 3.92/5
About: The occupant’s practice is a type of fundamentalist Christianity; they accept that to pursue God’s assertion and anticipate another Tribulation, they should safeguard total ordinariness among the enduring people, plants, and creatures, and hence practice genetic counseling. Contentions happen over the keeping of a tailless feline or the ownership of larger than average ponies.
Book Title: The City and the Stars
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Published: January 27, 1956
Publisher: Frederick Muller
Language: English
Pages: 256
Good reads rating: 4.10/5
About: The story behind this dread of wandering outside the city recounts a race of savage trespassers, which beat mankind over from the stars to Earth, and after that made an arrangement that humankind, could live whether they never left the planet. In Diaspar, the Central Computer runs the whole city.
Book Title: The Minority Report
Author: Philip K. Dick
Published: June 17, 2002
Publisher: Pantheon Book
Language: English
Pages: 105
Good reads rating:3.83/5
About: Philip K dick has written The Minority Report. He discovers that General Kaplan is pushing to cancel the Division, guaranteeing that it isn’t exact. Surrendering himself, he meets with Kaplan at a rally where he is utilized for instance of the incapability of Prescribe to support Kaplan’s position.
Book Title: The World Jones Made
Author: Philip K. Dick
Published: 1956
Publisher: Ace Books
Language: English
Pages: 192
Good reads rating: 3.62/5
About: It is a sci-fi novel. In this specific dystopia, Relativism rose as the overseeing political conventionality. Relativism said to be a good and moral way of thinking that states everybody is allowed to accept what the individual in question wishes, as long as they do not make any other person attempt to pursue that rule.
Book Title: Atlas Shrugged
Author: Ayn Rand
Published: October 10, 1957
Publisher: Random House
Language: English
Pages: 1168
Good reads rating: 3.68/10
About: The book portrays the dystopian United States where private organizations endure under progressively difficult laws and guidelines. The book investigates various philosophical subjects from which Rand would thusly create Objectivism. Rand conducted research railroad industry in the America to produce Atlas Shrugged.
Book Title: The Naked Sun
Author: Isaac Asimov
Published: January 1957
Publisher: Doubleday
Language: English
Pages: 187
Good reads rating: 4.15/5
About: This is a whodunit story. The book centers on the surprising conventions, traditions, and culture of Solarian culture. Individuals educated from birth to stay away from individual contact, and live on colossal domains, either alone or with their life partner as it were. The circumstance turns out to be progressively intricate when Hannis Gruer, the Head of Security on Solaria, harmed while seeing with Baley.
Book Title: The Rise of the Meritocracy
Author: Michael Young
Published: 1958
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Pages: 198
Good reads rating: 3.74/5
About: It describes a dystopian culture later on the United Kingdom in which insight and legitimacy have turned into the focal principle of society, supplanting past divisions of social class and making a general public stratified between a justified power-holding world-class and a disappointed underclass of the less justified.
Book Title: Alas, Babylon
Author: Pat Frank
Published: 1959
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott
Language: English
Pages: 352
Good reads rating: 4.07/5
About: The novel describes the impacts of the atomic war on the anecdotal community of Fort Repose, Florida, which dependent on the real city of Mount Dora, Florid. The vast majority of the legislature has wiped out, with the current U.S. president, Josephine Vanbruuker-Brown, being the previous Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Book Title: A Canticle for Leibowitz
Author: Walter M. Miller Jr
Published: 1948
Publisher: October, 1959
Language: English
Pages: 320
Good reads rating: 3.98/5
About: Set in a Catholic religious community in the desert of the southwestern United States after an overwhelming atomic war, the book traverses a great many years as human progress reconstructs itself. The priests of the Albertan Order of Leibowitz protect the enduring leftovers of man’s logical information until the world is again prepared for it.
Book Title: The Sound of His Horn
Author: Sarban
Published: 1952
Publisher: Peter Davies Ltd
Language: English
Pages: 154
Good reads rating: 3.75/5
About: In the wake of getting away, and going through a woodland he keeps running into a boundary of ‘Bohlen Rays’, is thumped oblivious and stirs in a Nazi-controlled world, in any event, a hundred years after World War II on the home of the Reich Master Forester, Count Hans von Hackenberg.
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