20th Century Dystopia Literature 1960 – 1970
Dystopian Literature 20th Century – 1960 -1970 – What a decade for Dystopian writers, the cold war and Vietnam in full swing, civil rights movements and assassinations of two of my heroes John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Never in the history of Dystopia had the world been so close to destruction, 1960 to 1970 was a decade of both free love, hippies and with the Cuban missile crisis near-total nuclear annihilation. This decade produces some of the finest early inspirations for me, including Clockwork Orange, I secretly read my dad’s copy as a kid and was equally hooked and freaked out. Best of all at the pinnacle of the decade Humans landed on the moon. Enjoy the list of 1960 to 1970 Dystopian Literature.
Book Title: Dr. Futurity
Author: Philip K. Dic
Published: 1960
Publisher: Ace Books
Language: English
Pages: 138
Good reads rating: 3.58/5
About: Dr. Futurity is a sci-fi novel composed by an American essayist. Later on, the populace is static, with no common births; no one but demise can cause the development of another fetus. The outcome is a general public undecided toward death, as controlled hereditary qualities guarantees that each progressive age better advantages mankind all in all.
Book Title: Facial Justice
Author: L. P. Hartle
Published: December 1960
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Language: English
Pages: 263
Good reads rating: 3.44/5
About: L. P. Hartle has written a dystopian novel, whose name is Facial Justice. In Britain, a concealed pioneer motivates a huge segment of the people to get away from the natural hollows and structures another fascism over the ground. This new society was dependent on an aggregate feeling of the blame on the occasions of the atomic war.
Book Title: Vulcan’s Hammer
Author: Philip K. Dick
Published: 1960
Publisher: Ace Books
Language: English
Pages: 139
Good reads rating: 3.52/5
About: It is a sci-fi novel, which explains Unity, runs the planet, controlling people from youth instruction onwards through the Vulcan arrangement of manufactured reasoning, however, battled by the Healer development. Nevertheless, Vulcan has effectively seen the hole inaccessible information about the agitators and produced executioner androids of its own.
Book Title: Harrison Bergeron
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Published: 1961
Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Language: English
Pages: 9
Good reads rating: 4.22/5
About: The Handicapper General’s specialists uphold the correspondence laws, constraining residents to wear handicaps: covers for the excellent individuals, noisy radios that disturb musings inside the ears of shrewd individuals, and heavyweights for the solid or athletic. It is a short story of humorous and dystopian sci-fi.
Book Title: Return from the Stars
Author: Stanisław Lem
Published: 1961
Publisher: Czytelnik (first Polish edition) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Language: Polish
Pages: 247
Good reads rating: 3.99/5
About: This novel explains among the thoughts of social distance, culture stun, and oppressed world. For Hal, nevertheless, this new world is excessively agreeable, excessively protected. Earth is never again home, it is “another, outsider planet.” Humans themselves have changed, having experienced a method called betrization, intended to kill every single forceful drive.
Book Title: The Old Men at the Zoo
Author: Angus Wilson
Published: 1961
Publisher: Secker and Warburg
Language: English
Pages: 352
Good reads rating: 3.34/5
About: The book deals with occasions before an atomic assault on London during an (apparently) restricted atomic war, which results in the burden of a later dystopian skillet European tragic autocracy until salvage touches base for the detainees at the zoo, changed into a death camp.
Book Title: A Clockwork Orange
Author: Anthony Burgess
Published: 1962
Publisher: William Heinemann, UK
Language: English
Pages: 192
Good reads rating: 3.99/5
About: It is set in a not so distant future society that has a young subculture of extraordinary savagery. The high school hero, Alex, portrays his rough endeavors and his encounters with express experts’ resolved to improve him. The book has three sections, each with seven parts. Burgess has expressed that the 21 parts were a purposeful gesture to the age of 21 perceived as an achievement in human development.
Book Title: The Man in the High Castle
Author: Philip K. Dick
Published: October 1962
Publisher: Putnam
Language: English
Pages: 240
Good reads rating: 3.63/5
About: The Man in the High Castle won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963. Starting in 2015, the book was adjusted as a multi-season TV arrangement, with Dick’s little girl, Isa Dick Hackett, filling in as one of the show’s makers.
Book Title: The Wanting Seed
Author: Anthony Burgess
Published: 1962
Publisher: Heinemann
Language: English
Pages: 285
Good reads rating: 3.72/5
About: All through the main segment of the novel, overpopulation portrayed through the confinement and reuse of materials, and amazingly cramped living conditions. Even though the novel tends to numerous societal issues, the essential subject is overpopulation and its connection to culture. Religion, government, and history additionally tended to. A critical segment of the book is a judgment of war.
Book Title: The Game-Players of Titan
Author: Philip K. Dick
Published: 1963
Publisher: Ace Books
Language: English
Pages: 191
Good reads rating: 3.64/5
About: In the first place, Pete has lost his preferred property, Berkeley, and his better half, Freya. Also, Berkeley’s new proprietor has offered it to a famously degenerate Bindman from the East Coast, Jerome Luck man. Pete misses Freya and stresses over the similarity of his new spouse.
Book Title: Planet of the Apes
Author: Pierre Boulle
Published: 1963
Publisher: La Planète des singes
Language: English
Pages: 263
Good reads rating: 3.93/5
About: Planet of the Apes is a sci-fi an American media establishment. The establishment depends on French creator Pierre Boulle 1963 novel La Planet des burns converted into English as Planet of the Apes or Monkey Planet. Plans for a film change slowed down “being developed damnation” for more than ten years before Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes was discharged in 2001.
Book Title: Farnham’s Freehold
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Published: 1964
Publisher: G.P. Putnam (US)
Language: English
Pages: 256
Good reads rating: 3.56/5
About: The arrangement for the story is an immediate hit by an atomic weapon, which sends into the future and outcome refuge containing Farnham, his better half, child, little girl, little girl’s companion, and residential worker. Recorded as a hard copy, the novel Heinlein drew on his experience of structure an aftermath cover under his own home.
Book Title: Nova Express
Author: William S. Burroughs
Published: November 9, 196
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Pages: 192
Good reads rating: 3.68/5
About: It is a piece of The Nova Trilogy, or “Cut-Up Trilogy,’ together with The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded. Control is the fundamental subject of the novel, and Burroughs endeavors to utilize language to separate the dividers of culture, the greatest control machine. He utilizes assessor Lee to express his own musings about the world.
Book Title: The Penultimate Truth
Author: Philip K. Dick
Published: 1964
Publisher: Belmont Books
Language: English
Pages: 174
Good reads rating: 3.79/5
About: The story starts in one of the tanks, named Tom Mix. The tank president, Nicholas St. James, is compelled to go to the surface to purchase a fake pancreas on the underground market. The administration and war motor stay superficially; the world-class “Yance-men”
Book Title: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Author: Philip K. Dick
Published: 1965
Publisher: Doubleday
Language: English
Pages: 278
Good reads rating: 4.01/5
About: In a urgent offer to safeguard humankind and frankness populace troubles on Earth, the UN has started a “draft” for colonizing the close-by planets, where conditions are so awful and crude that the reluctant settlers have fallen prey to a type of idealism including the utilization of an illicit medication working together with “formats.”
Book Title: Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman
Author: Harlan Ellison
Published: December 1965
Publisher: Galaxy Science Fiction
Language: English
Pages: 48
Good reads rating: 4.20/5
About: The story centers around a man named Everett C. Marm who, camouflaged as the revolutionary Harlequin, takes part in capricious resistance to the Ticktockman. Everett is involved with a young lady named Pretty Alice, who has exasperated by the way that he is never on schedule.
Book Title: The Crack in Space
Author: Philip K. Dick
Published: 1966
Publisher: Ace Books
Language: English
Pages: 190
Good reads rating: 3.46/5
About: The Crack in Space is a sci-fi novel written by an American writer. The base period essential for the majority of the huge number of “face cloths” to emigrate assessed to be twenty years. To chop this down to 5 years, the break is incidentally shut so the new power supply can be introduced which will hypothetically fourfold the width of the fracture.
Book Title: The Dream Master
Author: Roger Zelazny
Published: 1966
Publisher: Ace Books
Language: English
Pages: 155
Good reads rating: 3.65/5
About: This is a world ready for psychotherapeutic developments, for example, the “neuro member treatment” in which the hero, Charles Render, practices. The Dream Master set in a future where the powers of overpopulation and innovation have made an existence where mankind suffocates mentally underneath its very own mass while dwelling in relative physical comfort.
Book Title: Make Room! Make Room
Author: Harry Harrison
Published: 1966
Publisher: Doubleday
Language: English
Pages: 216
Good reads rating: 3.72/5
About: A sci-fi novel is investigating the outcomes of unchecked populace development on society. The shop is plundered by the horde. Billy Chung, a Chinese-American 18-year-old, gets a container of steaks. He eats some of them and offers the rest to collect enough cash to get a vocation as a Western Union errand person kid.
Book Title: Now Wait for Last Year
Author: Philip K. Dick
Published: 1966
Publisher: Doubleday
Language: English
Pages: 214
Good reads rating: 3.89/5
About: The specialist’s patient is the world head, UN Secretary-General. Of the twenty-eight books, Dick distributed during the 1960s and 1970s, this novel is one of the five pick to speak to this time of his vocation in The Library of America arrangement, Volume 2. Presently, Wait for Last Year is the account of Eric Sweet’s penny, an organ-transplant specialist who is enveloped with Earth-Lilistar legislative issues.
Book Title: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Author: Harlan Ellison
Published: March 1967
Publisher: Galaxy Publishing Corp
Language: English
Pages: 134
Good reads rating: 4.01/5
About: As the war advanced, the three warring countries each made a super-PC equipped for running the war more productively than people run. The ace PC harbours vast scorn for the gathering and spends each accessible minute tormenting them.
Book Title: Logan’s Run
Author: William F. Nolan & George
Published: 1948
Publisher: Dial Press
Language: English
Pages: 133
Good reads rating: 3.67/5
About: The story pursues the activities of Logan, a Sandman accused of implementing the standard, as he tracks down and slaughters natives who “run” from society’s deadly interest just to wind up “running” himself. Sprinters are the individuals who will not answer to a Sleep shop and endeavor to maintain a strategic distance from their destiny by getting away to Sanctuary.
Book Title: The Time Hoppers
Author: Robert Silverberg
Published: 1967
Publisher: Leisure Books
Language: English
Pages: 182
Good reads rating: 3.39/5
About: It is a sci-fi novel. The individuals, who are in lower classes, for example, his sister and brother by marriage in Classes 14 and fifteen, just have the benefit of a one-room condominium with even the shower out for full showcase. The degree of innovation is exceptionally best in class; teleportation is a reality, as is time travel.
Book Title: The Tripods
Author: John Christopher
Published: 1967
Publisher: Collier Books
Language: English
Pages: 224
Good reads rating: 4.17/5
About: Human culture is largely peaceful, with a couple of homes bigger than towns, and what little industry exists has directed under the careful nearness of the Tripods. People are controlled from the age of 14 by inserts called “Tops,” which smother interest and innovativeness.
Book Title: Why Call them Back From Heaven?
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Published: 1967
Publisher: Doubleday/Ace
Language: English
Pages: 192
Good reads rating: 3.51/5
About: The general population of this future world never again take risks since they may be perilous, and forego all joys to set aside enough cash to be protected for their subsequent life. A man indicted for horrendous wrongdoing given the most noticeably terrible sentence conceivable: he won’t be allowed to store himself for a subsequent life; generally, his rights are unaffected.
Book Title: A Very Private Life
Author: Michael Frayn
Published: 1968
Publisher: Collins
Language: English
Pages: 192
Good reads rating: 3.64/5
About: This book is an advanced fantasy that discloses the useless mission to reach another human. She leaves them to seek after a man that she begins to look all starry eyed at from the outset locate in spite of a language obstruction existing between them, which prevents her from shaping any associations with him or his family.
Book Title: Camp Concentration
Author: Thomas M. Disch
Published: 1968
Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis
Language: English
Pages: 117
Good reads rating: 3.76/5
About: Camp Concentration is a sci-fi novel composed by Thomas M. Disch. By separating inflexible classifications in the mind the malady makes the manner of thinking both quicker and increasingly adaptable; it likewise causes physical breakdown and, inside nine months, demise.
Book Title: The Tripods
Author: John Christopher
Published: 1967
Publisher: Collier Books
Language: English
Pages: 224
Good reads rating: 4.17/5
About: The Tripod of youthful grown-up books is an arrangement. Human culture is to a great extent peaceful, with a couple of residences bigger than towns, and what little industry exists led under the vigilant nearness of the Tripods. Way of life is reminiscent of the Middle Ages, yet little ancient rarities from the Modern Age are as yet utilized, for example, watches.
Book Title: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Author: Philip K. Dick
Published: 1968
Publisher: Doubleday
Language: English
Pages: 210
Good reads rating: 4.08/5
About: The book is set in a dystopian San Francisco, where Earth’s life has significantly harmed by an atomic worldwide war. The book filled in as the essential reason for the 1982 film Blade Runner, and numerous components and subjects from it utilized in its 2017 continuation Blade Runner 2049.
Book Title: The Tripods
Author: John Christopher
Published: 1967
Publisher: Collier Books
Language: English
Pages: 224
Good reads rating: 4.17/5
About: A few people, whose brains are broken by the Caps, become vagrants. As indicated by The City of Gold and Lead, Masters start to accept that people ought to be topped at a prior age “since certain people, in the year or two preceding they are Capped, turned out to be insubordinate and act against the experts”, however, this is impossible.
Book Title: Stand on Zanzibar
Author: John Brunner
Published: 1968
Publisher: Doubleday
Language: English
Pages: 582
Good reads rating: 3.96/5
About: New wave dystopian novel Stand on Zanzibar has written by John Brunner. The story itself pursues the lives of an enormous cast of characters, picked to give a wide cross-area of things to come world. A portion of this an interface straightforwardly with the focal stories, while others add profundity to Brunner’s reality.
Book Title: Synthajoy
Author: David G. Compton
Published: 1968
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (UK) Ace Books(US)
Language: English
Pages: 180pp(US) 190 pp (UK)
Good reads rating: 3.58/5
About: The hero is the spouse of the maker of Synthajoy, who acknowledging what harm it would do to society killed her significant other, and was focused on a psychological medical clinic. The tale investigates the social results of the improvement of a “computer-generated simulation” innovation.
Book Title: The Jagged Orbit
Author: John Brunner
Published: 1969
Publisher: Ace Books
Language: English
Pages: 400
Good reads rating: 3.74/5
About: British author John Brunner has composed a sci-fi novel is A Jagged Orbit. A split creates inside the cartel, between the preservationist elderly people men and aspiring subordinates arranged to utilize new PC innovation to draw off some fabulous overthrows. There are a few separate strands of account.
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