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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm trying to think of the last best novel nominee that would be considered dystopian. I'm drawing a blank.
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Well, technically, Mira Grant's Newsflesh novels are set in a post-zombie-apocalypse world. But they were pretty optimistic about that, as was the next-most-recent-dystopian one I can immediately think of, which was Cherie Priest's
Boneshaker (also a post-zombie-apocalypse world) in the 2010 Hugos.
Wikipedia does file another 2010 nominee listed on their
page of all the Best Novel ones, Robert Charles Wilson's
Julian Comstock as a dystopia, and admittedly GRRM's
A Dance with Dragons does take place in what's probably best described as a crapsack world with a likely grimdark meathook forseeable future, but aside from that, much of the longer-length stuff that I've gotten in the Hugo Voter Packet since I started signing up to read and vote on these have seemed relatively upbeat, considering, though YMMV.