The books that show us how it could all go wrong - the best dystopian novels of all time (with no spoilers)!
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We also have episodes that go a lot deeper on some of these dystopias - check them out if you haven't yet:
- The Machine Stops: https://youtu.be/s5s_yrI1oSQ
- A Scanner Darkly: https://youtu.be/IeNY0O79n_E
- Fahrenheit 451: https://youtu.be/3iJTOYY9Vdg
- The Handmaid's Tale: https://youtu.be/S8u-dZmWuH4
- Brave New World: https://youtu.be/zlS2zRUz3No
- 1984: https://youtu.be/OKdu-JlgVMY
- We: https://youtu.be/0wWnkplxZcc
Timestamps
00:00 Intro & Sponsor: The Dawn Series
1:56 Dystopia vs post-apocalypse
5:17 Why dystopia is so common in YA
7:06The Hunger Games
9:20 Red Rising
12:13 Ready Player One
13:07 The Giver
15:11 Never Let Me Go
17:19 The Children of Men
20:51 The Machine Stops
22:31 Clockwork Orange
25:16 The OG dystopian writers
26:16 Philip K. Dick
28:50 Kallocain
32:06 Fahrenheit 451
34:31 The Handmaid's Tale
40:03 Brave New World
43:32 1984
47:06 We
50:57 Ranking our top 3 dystopias
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