wider reading Flashcards
Orynx and Crake
2003, Atwood
post- biotechnological catastrophe
humanity has been all but wiped out by a man-made pandemic
follows the character of ‘Snowman’ who may be the last remaining human alive
it is a world dominated by genetically altered organisms and it is plagued by pollution, global warming etc
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E Butler, 1993
set in America in a world constituted by environment collapse
there is water scarcity inducing desperation - water becomes expensive, clean water a luxury
Lauren has ‘hyperempathy’, she is able to sense anothers emotion like it is her own
Make Room! Make Room!
Harrison, 1966
explores the problem of population growth via overcrowding, limited goods and crumbling buildings etc
The Ice People
Maggie Gee, 1998
set in a world enveloped in cold, children reduced to cannibalism, the threaten to kill Saul, but save him due to a fascination with his story telling ability
The Purchase of the North Pole
Jule Verne, 1889
depicts developing climate due to tilting of world’s axis
The Drowned World
1962, Ballard
describes a world plagued by melting ice-caps and rising sea-levels the product of solar radiation
The Man Who Awoke
Mannings, 1933
tells the story fo a man who awakes from a suspended animation of the world to come where he sees the destruction of the environment - global warming etc
The Road
McCarthy, 2006
post-apocalyptic novel that describes the journey of a father and son in a landscape where industrial civilisation had been destroyed and almost all living organisms
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley, 1932
vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced society where humans are genetically bred and socially indoctrinated to uphold an authoritarian ruling order
children are created outside of the womb and allocated to a predetermined caste
Farenheit 451
Ray Bradburn, 1951
set in 24th century
Guy Montag’s duty is to burn books, to inhibit any means of complexity or contradiction
anti-censorship novel written in Cold War
turns into a rebel in becoming a member of the ‘Book People’ who aim to save books in remembering them
Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess, 1962
set in a dismal dystopian England
follows a young delinquent who undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behaviour
