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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
I lean towards liking the dystopias that are crafted to provide a challenge and targets to blow away...with good characterization and usually a mystery to be solved. The ones that drape themselves in bad news (1984) are not for me no matter how valid the lesson being pushed.
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The ones I like in that category are generally vilified so you definitely have company.
There is a third, much smaller category (I'm not sure I've seen it used by anybody but S.M. Stirling and Fred Sabergahen) where the milieu is only a dystopia from the reader's point of view; the protagonist is mostly okay with the world around them.