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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Well, in part I just find it very hard to imagine any of those worlds actually happening. I mean, granted, a lot of SFF can't possibly happen, but generally you can see it happening if only x.
I don't find them convincing, and several high-profile ones are overly derivative and formulaic I feel -- kind of makes it seem like the recent surge of dystopians is just people trying to capitalize on the popularity of The Hunger Games, and not setting out to write a good story.
Mind you, I did enjoy Steelheart and Firestorm immensely. 
And, I guess Asimov might count? |
In looking through my list, I don't read a lot of dystopian and what I do read hasn't made enough of an impression on me that I blogged it. I can think of at least one that was going along decent and then became a DNF because it had to devolved into the "great sex scene(s)" (and no, this was not written by a gal, it was written by a guy and told from the male POV). Between that and the other hero-complex scenes, I'd had enough and moved on.
Most of those I've read appear to be short stories (I think Backlash by Nancy Fulda was a good one but I'm not sure it's ENTIRELY dystopian as it's more mystery). I also did enjoy Hollowland despite its flaws (and there were a few). It's pure entertainment and not to be taken as serious sci/fi, but it does hold with themes of using humans to experiment on so in that aspect it's definitely sci/fi.
This is on my wish list too, thanks to my reading buddy:
http://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Iron-Gord...=wolf+and+iron
(Iron and Wolf is the title).