I highly recommend the Strugatsky brothers. There's a new translation of "Roadside Picnic" out, that would be a great place to start. Another good one is "We"

I highly recommend the Strugatsky brothers. There's a new translation of "Roadside Picnic" out, that would be a great place to start. Another good one is "We" by Evgenii Zamyatin. It's a dystopian novel Orwell cribbed from for 1984.