 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £1.53 The jokes on a future phony socialist totalitarian regime when all they create a broken men and burbling idiots
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 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy new: £4.36 / Used from: £0.01 From total authority to its complete abscence, written as a counterpoint to a forgotten optimistic novel about private school values prevailing
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy new: £5.29 / Used from: £3.50 A totally administered society being slowly killed by creature comforts observed by an outsider
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 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £2.98 Orwell's masterpiece depicting a revolution betrayed
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 | Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (Dover Thrift) by Edward Bellamy
Buy new: £2.07 / Used from: £0.01 This futuristic novel of total planning so revolted William Morris he wrote News From Nowhere as an alternative
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 | Our Friends From Frolix 8 (Gollancz S.F.) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 A polarised humanity on the brink of upheavel and chaos faces comfortable and complete annihilation, maybe.
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 | The Bachman Books by Richard Bachman
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.33 A series of future shocks, trials of endurance and game shows where life and death are the stakes
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 | Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
Buy used from: £1.79 The Mist, a small group of survivors are over taken by religious mania when faced by what seems like certain death in a bizarre mist
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 | The Dispossessed (Gollancz S.F.) by Ursula Le Guin
Buy used from: £1.67 An ambiguous utopia? An individual struggles with the onset of corruption in one world and the onset of revolution in another, by turns heartbreaking and hopeful
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 | World War Z by Max Brooks
Buy new: £5.03 / Used from: £2.73 Zombi apocalypse!! Dystopic accounts of a world overwhelmed but with a hopeful outcome
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 | The Rising by Brian Keene
Buy new: £3.68 / Used from: £1.18 End of the world fiction, the rapid ruin of the authorities and civilisation is pretty dystopic to put it mildly
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 | The Store by Bentley Little
Buy used from: £0.87 Little does for corporate stores what Orwell did for government, stomach churning and supernatural themes compliment a more horrific groupthink
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 | The Day of the Triffids (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Wyndham
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £2.47 A blinding meteor shower leaves mankind vulnerable to man eating plants
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 | The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £3.07 Post-nuclear story of genetic mutation in a devastated world, a community divided against itself and its children
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 | Atlas Shrugged (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ayn Rand
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £5.82 A torturous capitalist novel in which the valourised heads of industry "strike" and drop out
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![The Prisoner [DVD] [1967]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HFH4KBAzL._SL75_.jpg) | The Prisoner [DVD] [1967]
Buy new: £25.67 Madcap spy action, who has the prisoner captive, his enemies or his former employers?
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 | Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Mad science or reflection on the maddening consequences of a solitary life? You decide
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 | Marx's "Das Kapital": A Biography - A Book That Shook the World (Books That Shook the World) by Francis Wheen
Buy new: £4.81 / Used from: £2.83 Better than Capital itself, describes the an attempt at the literary portrayal of capitalism as a sort of Frankenstein's monster turned on its creators
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 | We (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £2.04 One of the inspirations for 1984, a future industrial collectivist regime in which everyone lives in transparent houses
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 | The Iron Heel (Penguin Classics) by London Jack
Buy new: £6.36 / Used from: £8.13 A future resistance struggles with the alliance between oligarchs and a police state
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Women are reduced to breeding stock slavery in a future theocracy
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