Comments on Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction - page 5

This list is difficult to trust as it has missed one of the very best.
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller.

I love Little, Big (#300), but it is not dystopian or post-apocalyptic.

Heather wrote: "Do people just not know what a Utopia and a Dystopia are?"

calm down pls

Steffi ~mereadingbooks~ wrote: "How are Tolkien's books utopian or dystopian??"

They are totally fantasy. They should not be on this list

Is there not a way to combine the two separate copies of 1984? Seems lame to split the vote of the obvious winner of this category.

No dystopia for me.

Andrew wrote: "You guys remember the end of the Princess Bride, when Inigo dies of his wounds, Fezzik turns Westley in to the secret police, and Buttercup kills herself after discovering that she's pregnant with ..."

Yeah, The Princess Bride doesn't really belong here!

Re Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card:
I disagree with this this book being categorized as dystopian / apocalyptic. It is a war novel. Maybe our side won't win the war - does that mean every novel about world war I or world war II is apocalyptic? What about novels re the War in Vietnam?

Re The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
It seems very odd to list this collection of linked stories as a Post-apocalyptic / dystopic novel. It follows an apocalypse for the Martians, and the present portrayed would certainly be a dystopia from their perspective. But it's not a dystopia or post-apocalypse for the human colonists on Mars.
The world shown is no more dystopic than our modern Western intensely materialist, overtly anti-ecological, obsessively capitalist society is.

Re Dune, by Frank Herbert
I disagree with those who placed this novel on the dystopia / apocalypse list. While I don't think most of us would choose to live on the planet Arrakis, it has not suffered an apocalypse. If you read the whole series, or even a portion of it, you will realize that the ecology of the planet is actually improving (which is more than can be said for our planet!) Likewise, the empire portrayed is anything but a utopia - but it does not show anything nearly as vile despicable as much of our own history or current events here on our "Little blue planet, third from the sun . . .! I think to call Arrakis apocalyptic / a dystopia is to bury our collective heads in the sand, and miss what Frank Herbert was trying to tell us, in his ecological masterpiece.

Re Stanger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
Not a review, just a comment re this novel being added to the list of "Dystopia / post Apocalypse" Novels. These categories have nothing whatsoever to do with this novel. [Unless, of course, you mean the poor Martians - but the novel does not actually deal with Martians, except very peripherally - so I'm sure that has nothing to do with dystopia / post Apocalypse.

If anything, it's quite the reverse. I'm sure Jubal Harshaw, one of the main characters, would think the situation was more related to a potential utopia, than a dystopia. Did the people saying dystopia actually read the novel? We can no longer consult R.A.H., but I'm sure Heinlein would strongly disagree with any dystopia discussion as regards his magnum opus.