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Feed is a YA novel about a society that is constantly online and what that means for social trends and consumerism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_(Anderson_novel)?useskin=vector
Children of Time is long but it's not complicated. It's not totally dystopian but has the premise that Earth is a dying planet, so humans set out into the galaxy to terraform another world to live on. They bring a virus that will hasten the evolution of a native species, but they accidentally deploy it onto a world's spiders instead of mammals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel)
We is a 1924 book about a totalitarian state by a Russian author, sort of a precursor to 1984 and Brave New World. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
A lot of Dick books are dystopian, perhaps most famously Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which is what the movie Blade Runner was based on.
Wikipedia has a list here if you need some more ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature?useskin=vector
ed: fixed links
I'm gonna second Children of Time (and its two sequels, Children of Ruin and Children of Memory). Children of Time is one of my favourite books, and I really love the way the story is told over multiple generations and we get to see the world advance and grow. Also, the resolution of the story is perfect in my eyes
I agree that they're all great but Children of Ruin really did it for me. Definitely in my top 3 sci-fi books of all time.
"We're going on an adventure"
Chilling.
BTW your Feed Wikipedia link is empty. Thanks for the rec, though - I'm not OP but added it to my To Read list.
Odd, works for me. Here's a slightly different link that might work for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_(Anderson_novel)
Yeah, I ran across it in a class I took about YA and it was probably the best book we did that semester. Being YA it's a quick read too.
Aha that one worked!
I see what the problem is-- the parentheses in the links were screwing up the formatting. You can use a slash (or a backslash maybe?) as an escape to tell it not to read the following parenthesis as code, but I dunno how to do that here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel/))
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odd-- it won't even let me save a backslash into the comment link-- it automatically converts it to a slash before publishing. Oh well, a mystery for another day
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