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George Orwell's "1984»
The novel describes a world divided between the three totalitarian gosudarstavami. The book is about total control, destroying the entire human and trying to survive in a world of hatred. Roman repeatedly subjected to censorship by the socialist countries. Was banned in the USSR.




Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World»
We see a society in which seemingly has no place of pain and sorrow. Every man almost from birth are taught that his place in society - the best; all provided with any necessary benefits them. If all the same sadness crept into the soul - just take a couple of pills soma, and bad mood will be over.



George Orwell "Animal Farm»
"Animal Farm" - a parable, an allegory of the revolution of 1917 and the subsequent events in Russia. Animal World barnyard long suffered bestial treatment by the people, but once it is lost patience. Quadrupeds rebelled and drove farmers themselves well and declared themselves a free republic under the leadership of pigs.



Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451»
451 ° F - the temperature at which paper ignites and burns. This is the world of the future in which all written publications ruthlessly destroyed by a special detachment of firemen, storage of books prohibited by law, and interactive television is successfully duping everyone.



Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange »
This is a wicked satire on the modern totalitarian society, seeking to turn the young generation into obedient to the will of the leaders of "A Clockwork Orange". Clever, cruel, charismatic anti-hero Alex, the leader of a street gang, preaching violence as a high art of life gets in the iron grip of the latest state program for the rehabilitation of offenders and himself becomes a victim of violence.



Yevgeny Zamyatin "We»
One of the most famous anti-utopia world. In the twenty-sixth century the inhabitants of Utopia have so lost their individuality, which vary in number. At the head of the One State should someone called Benefactor, which annually re-elected by the entire population, as a rule, unanimously. The guiding principle of the State is that happiness and freedom are incompatible.



Andrei Platonov "Pit»
In the "Cauldron" as in a distorting mirror reflected the main events held in the USSR, the first five-year plan: industrialization and collectivization. A remarkable example of dystopian, hard satire on the realities of life and the social structure of the Soviet state.



Alex Garland "The Beach»
Beach - a piece of heaven on earth among the Thai islands. It reveals a group of people. The complete absence of civilization and wilderness solid captivates all the people who see it. About this place goes a lot of rumors, it even dubbed Eden. But getting there is not easy. To find yourself there, you have to be smart, brave and determined.



Vladimir Nabokov "Invitation to a Beheading»
In an unnamed fictional country of a young man named Cincinnatus C. awaiting execution, being imprisoned in the fortress and was sentenced to death for his disturbing public peace or opacity, as stated in the opinion of the Court, "epistemological infamy." Visits the "wretched ghosts" guards and relatives.



Lauren Oliver "Delirium»
Near future. A world in which love is forbidden, because love - sickness, danger amor delirium, and the person who has violated the ban threatens severe punishment. Therefore, any citizen who has attained the age of eighteen years, required to undergo a liberation from the memory of the past, which contains the germs of disease



Stephen King "Running Man»
In a typical small town lives a normal person, slowly but surely sinking into the abyss of black hatred of themselves and others. And when the occasion is, it will not stop. America has become a hell. People are dying of hunger, and the only way to make - to take part in the most monstrous of the games generated perverse sadistic mind.



Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go»
Kathy, Tommy and ores grew up in boarding school. Studied, drew pictures, played in school performances. Over time, they learned that their fate - a donation. They were created specifically to save the terminally ill. And these children, it is not shocking. They meekly prepare themselves to become the first assistants and brighten up the last days of his comrades, and then get called by the notch.



Kurt Vonnegut "Slaughterhouse-Five»
Do you want to present yourself in the place of Billy Pilgrim, who goes to bed elderly widower, and wakes up in the wedding day, walks in the door in 1955, and comes out of it in 1941? Only need to learn from Tralfamadorians see in four dimensions. One advice: wandering in time, choose a door, you do not accidentally turn on Slaughterhouse Five.



Tatyana Tolstaya "Kys»
"Kys" - an actual dystopia, terrible and wonderful tale about the death of our civilization, a mutated citizens, running wild in the forests of radioactive, but the main thing - the degradation of language, still recognizable, but poorly understood.



Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "The Snail on the Slope»
In the story "The Snail on the Slope" there are two worlds, two different societies, each of which lives by its own laws. We see the world through the eyes of Candida and pepper. Scientists, people thought that reject violence and harassment. Both are "sick longing for understanding" to the end will seek the truth, but each in their own way.



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