Tag: dystopian books
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Dystopian Literary Fiction in I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
With its recent reprinting and regained hype on bookish social media, I decided to give Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men a read. With its dystopian sci-fi setting, raw detail, and startling exploration of the unknown, it is certainly something different, and will have you thinking about its content long after finishing. A…
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Let’s Talk About Ray Bradbury’s Dystopian Classic Fahrenheit 451
Did you really think I wouldn’t pick up the classic book about books and media literacy? How could I pass up Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 when the opportunity to read scholarly classic academic literature arose? It it true I hadn’t read Fahrenheit 451 before now, and I have more than a few things to say…
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Suzanne Collins is Well and Truly Back With Sunrise on the Reaping
My reread of the The Hunger Games trilogy brought back so many great memories, not to mention a second look at a series that is incredibly well-written, compelling, and knows just how to drum up tension and fear. But when I read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which I didn’t review for this blog,…
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The Book of the Unnamed Midwife: Meg Elison’s Intense Sci-Fi Masterpiece
Winner of the 2014 Philip K Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction, Meg Elison’s The Book of the Unnamed Midwife is an incredible science fiction read that is confronting, chilling, and wonderfully constructed. If you are one for adult dystopian, end-of-the-world science fiction that leans a little dark and heavy, then this is the book…