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Tag: dystopias

Review of ‘This Perfect Day’ by Ira Levin

02/06/2022 nsford 5 Comments

An unusual dystopian novel from the author of Rosemary’s Baby. I would describe it as the child of Brave New…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, dystopias, fiction, Ira Levin, reviews

Review of ‘Travelling Without Moving’ by Nathan Jones

07/04/2022 nsford 2 Comments

Dystopia, drugs and doppelgängers. This is an eccentric, unnerving dive into a post-apocalyptic world. The novel has tones of Philip…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, dystopias, Nathan Jones, reviews, science fiction

The Strange Feeling: a dystopian short story

04/12/2021 nsford 2 Comments

Note: I wrote this story in July but decided not to post it on the blog. Considering how things have…

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Posted in: Writing Filed under: dystopias, short stories, writing

Review of ‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin

15/09/2020 nsford 8 Comments

Before Nineteen Eighty-Four, before Brave New World, there was We, one of the first dystopian science fiction novels. It was…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, dystopias, fiction, reviews, translations, Yevgeny Zamyatin

Review of ‘The Last Day’ by Andrew Hunter Murray

27/01/2020 nsford 6 Comments

I thought I would like this book. A dystopian novel, it has some similarities to The Wall by John Lanchester…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: Andrew Hunter Murray, books, dystopias, fiction, reviews

Review of ‘The Wall’ by John Lanchester

05/01/2020 nsford 10 Comments

A frighteningly plausible dystopia, The Wall is set in the near future after an event called the Change. As a…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, dystopias, fiction, John Lanchester, reviews

Review of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ by George Orwell

07/12/2019 nsford 15 Comments

What can I say about this iconic and influential book which hasn’t already been said?! It’s 70 years since it…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, classics, dystopias, fiction, George Orwell, reviews

Who is lurking in the red mist?

18/08/2018 nsford 3 Comments

The year I got my A-level results, I began writing a novel. I was very into dystopias at the time.…

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Posted in: Writing Filed under: dystopias, writing
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