Recommend me a sci-fi book with dystopian or adventure elements for a beginner. (lemm.ee)

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I've recently gotten into reading and have completed some novels and graphic novels. I will not care if it's a novel, graphic novel, or something else. Any recommendation is great. Thanks

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[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

Feed is a YA novel about a society that is constantly online and what that means for social trends and consumerism.

Children of Time is long but it's not complicated. It's not totally dystopian but has the premise that Earth is a dying planet, so humans set out into the galaxy to terraform another world to live on. They bring a virus that will hasten the evolution of a native species, but they accidentally deploy it onto a world's spiders instead of mammals.

We is a 1924 book about a totalitarian state by a Russian author, sort of a precursor to 1984 and Brave New World.

A lot of Dick books are dystopian, perhaps most famously Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which is what the movie Blade Runner was based on.

Wikipedia has a list here if you need some more ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature?useskin=vector

[-] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 months ago

I'm gonna second Children of Time (and its two sequels, Children of Ruin and Children of Memory). Children of Time is one of my favourite books, and I really love the way the story is told over multiple generations and we get to see the world advance and grow. Also, the resolution of the story is perfect in my eyes