Chuck Palahniuk's Adjustment Day

Adjustment day

In recent American literature, many authors have visited the American dream as an argument to also offer its shadows and deformities. The result is that more complete notion of any society through reality in raw, dirty or raw ... And Chuck Palahniuk ...

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Terranautas, by TC Boyle

The Terranauts

The cinema and literature of sociological experiments should already have their own genre, From the Truman Show to the dome of Stephen King, a multitude of stories elaborate on telling us a vision between the utopian and the dystopian, as a bet to discover where it opts ...

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The novel of water, by Maja Lunde

The water novel

Every time we envision that sensation of the dystopian looming over us like a whitish nuclear, toxic sky. Science Fiction made crude realism to a term seen as indeterminate as it is true. Given our inability to step on the brakes in the unbridled consumerist evolution (ratified in a confinement ...

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Exquisite Cadaver, by Agustina Bazterrica

Exquisite corpse

What about a virus that ends up spreading among humans is no longer a chilling fictional plot but a feeling that dystopia may have come to stay. So novels like this hint at a sinister, devastatingly accurate narrative gift of opportunity. Let's hope that the ...

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QualityLand by Marc-Uwe Kling

QualityLand

With books like this, by the German writer Marc-Uwe Kling, we once again associate science fiction with philosophy, more than with other aspects of the suggestive fantastic plot. Because the science fiction of this novel deals more with the metaphysical than anything else. CiFi's most glorious dystopian precedents (in this ...

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The Eyes of Darkness, by Dean Koontz

The eyes of the dark

And the moment came when reality, rather than surpassing fiction, plunged fully into it. One bad day, when the covid-19 began to emerge as the pandemic that would become, the name of Dean Koontz began to spread through social networks. I thought …

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Eliseo's diary, by JJ Benitez

Eliseo's diary, by JJ Benitez

Eleventh installment of a dazzling saga that fascinates lovers of the esoteric, worries fervent believers and, above all, entertains in this hybrid between novel and report with hints of fascinating historical chronicle. When JJ Benitez started with Trojan Horse, back in 1984, I was a ...

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The Wills, by Margaret Atwood

The Wills, by Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood has undoubtedly become a mass icon of the most demanding feminism. Mainly because of his dystopia from The Handmaid's Tale. And it is that several decades after the novel was written, its introduction to television achieved that unexpected effect of the delayed echo. Of course ...

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Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan

Machines like me

Ian McEwan's tendency for existentialist composition, disguised in the particular dynamism of his plots and humanistic themes, always enrich the reading of his works of fiction, making his novels something more anthropological, sociological. Get to science fiction with the background of ...

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Voice, by Christina Dalcher

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It seems easy to imagine that when Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale, the story would surely take time to be considered by publishers until its edition in 1985. Those were other times and that of a feminist dystopia would sound as strident as a policewoman starring in a novel black ... And ...

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Nightflyers by George RR Martin

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The focus of current science fiction more media is focused on a George RR Martin who, contrary to what could be expected, continues his own business, creating more and more stories beyond the A Song of Ice and Fire saga, catapulted to glory. of masses in ...

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