Of a sweet slow dance in the wake of temporary dogs / Adam-Troy Castro. Is this your day to join the revolution? / Genevieve Valentine -Ĭaught in the organ draft / Robert Silverberg -Īrties aren't stupid / Jeremiah Tolbert.

'Repent harlequin!', said the Ticktockman / Harlan Ellison.

Things that make me weak and strange get engineered away / Cory Doctorow -ĭead space for the unexpected / Geoff Ryman. Rickert -įrom homogeneous to honey / Neil Gaiman & Bryan Talbot. Guin -Įvidence of love in a case of abandonment / M. Ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Rickert, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, and many others. This landmark tome contains stories by Ursula K. Brave New Worlds brings together the best dystopian fiction of the last 30 years, demonstrating the diversity that flourishes in this compelling subgenre. When the government wields its power against its own people, every citizen becomes an enemy of the state.From Huxley's Brave New World, to Orwell's 1984, to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, dystopian books have always been an integral part of both science fiction and literature, and have influenced the broader culture discussion in unique and permanent ways. Brave New Worlds collects 33 of the best tales of totalitarian menace by some of today's most visionary writers, including Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Ursula K. Now he brings you a glimpse into an equally terrifying future - what happens when civilization invades and dictates every aspect of your life? From 1984 to The Handmaid's Tale, from Children of Men to Bioshock, the dystopian imagination has been a vital and gripping cautionary force. In his smash-hit anthologies Wastelands and The Living Dead, acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams showed you what happens when society is utterly wiped away. Welcome to the world of the dystopia, a world of government and society gone horribly, nightmarishly wrong. One wrong move, one slip-up, and you may find yourself disappeared - swallowed up by a monstrous bureaucracy, vanished into a shadowy labyrinth of interrogation chambers, show trials, and secret prisons from which no one ever escapes. Productivity has never been higher, the media blares, and the army is ever triumphant. You are alone among thousands, among great crowds of the brainwashed, the well-behaved, the loyal. Your spouse may be an informer, your children may be listening at your door, your best friend may be a member of the secret police. Your every movement is being tracked, your every word recorded.

Brave New Worlds by John Joseph Adams