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Can someone suggest the books to read to experience a kafkaesque dystopia and a phildickian dystopia? I love dystopian novels.

• rainhacker 10y ago
  kafkaesque : The Trial by Franz kafka
  • novia 10y ago
    Thank you! In school we read Kafka, but it was The Metamorphosis. Any clue which Philip Dick books are dystopian?
    • cturner 10y ago
      Almost all of pkd is dystopian, but he really nailed brain-in-a-vat paranoia in a way few others had. That is what the writeup goes for. phildickian reads: ubik, andoids dream of electric sheep, time out of joint (kinda), scanner darkly, maze of death (kinda). Other: dr bloodmoney (post-nuclear), high castle (alternate history), radio free albemuth (kafkaesque becoming orwellian), screamers (robot conquest, with a paranoid twist)
      • novia 10y ago
        Fantastic! Thank you!
• r721 10y ago
  Kafkaesque: Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanisław Lem Phildickian: Idlewild by Nick Sagan