พักนี้เราได้เห็นสื่อบันเทิงที่ถูกสร้างมาในทาง Dystopian (หรืออาจจะพูดกลายๆ ว่า “แนวโลกมืด”) กันมากขึ้น ตั้งแต่ซีรีส์อย่าง Black Mirror, Handmaid’s Tale หรือภาพยนตร์อย่าง Hunger Games
ดูเหมือนว่าเมื่อโลกจริงมันหม่นหมอง เราก็อาจรู้สึกอินกับภาพยนตร์หรือนวนิยายแนวดิสโทเปียง่ายขึ้นตามไปด้วย
ประจวบเหมาะกับที่ Vulture เขาจัด 100 นิยาย (รวมไปถึงการ์ตูน) ดิสโทเปียตั้งแต่อดีตจนถึงปัจจุบัน (แบบไม่เรียงลำดับความดีงาม) มาพอดี เลยเอามาแชร์ไว้ เผื่อจะอยากไปตามอ่านกัน ไปดูกันว่ามีอะไรบ้าง
1. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift, 1726
2. The Last Man, Mary Shelly, 1826
3. Erewhon, Samuel Butler, 1872
4. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells, 1895
5. The Machine Stops, E.M. Forsters, 1909
6. We, Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924
7. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 1932
8. It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis, 1935
9. Swastika Night, Katharine Burdekin, 1937
10. 1984, George Orwell, 1949
11. Tales of the Dying Earth, Jack Vance, 1950-1984
12. Limbo, Bernard Wolfe, 1952
13. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953
14. Lord of the Flies, William Golding, 1954
15. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester, 1957
16. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, 1957
17. Inter Ice Age 4, Kobo Abe, 1958-1959
18. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, JR, 1959
19. The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard, 1962
20. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962
21. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, 1963
22. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison, 1967
23. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner, 1968
24. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick, 1968
25. The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Leguin, 1971
26. The Lorax, Dr. Seuss, 1971
27. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Angela Carter, 1972
28. Motorman, David Ohle, 1972
29. Roadside Picnic, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1972
30. The Girl Who Was Plugged In, James Tiptree, 1973
31. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany, 1975
32. The Girl Who Owned a City, O.T. Nelson, 1975
33. Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy, 1976
34. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Kate Wilheim, 1976
35. The Twenty Days of Turin, Giorgio De Maria, 1977
36. The Stand, Stephen King, 1978
37. Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban, 1980
38. The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe, 1980
39. Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo, 1982-1990
40. Neuromancer, William Gibson, 1984
41. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood, 1985
42. The Postman, David Brin, 1985
43. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card, 1985
44. Watchmen, Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins, 1986
45. The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller, Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley, 1986
46. Journals of the Plague Years, Norman Spinrad, 1988
47. Skreemer, Peter Milligan, Brett Ewins and Steve Dillion, 1989
48. The Child Garden, Geoff Ryman, 1989
49. Judge Dredd: America, John Wagner and Colin Macneil, 1990-1991
50. The Children of Men, P.D. James, 1992
51. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson, 1992
52. Parable of the Sower, Octovia Butler, 1993
53. The Giver, Lois Lowry, 1993
54. The Yellow Arrow, Victor Pelevin, 1993
55. Slow RIver, Nicola Griffith, 1995
56. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, 1996
57. Transmetropolitan, Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson, 1997-2002
58. Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson, 1998
59. The Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebeco, 1998
60. Post Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven, Antoine Volodine, 1998
61. Battle Royale, Koushun Takami, 1999
62. The Slynx, Tatyana Tolstaya, 2000
63. Mortal Engines, Phillip Reeve, 2001
64. Feed, Matthew Tobin Anderson, 2002
65. Y: The Last Man, Brain K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, 2002-2008
66. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood, 2003
67. Super Flat Times, Matthew Derby, 2003
68. The City of Ember, Jeanne Duprau, 2003
69. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005
70. World War Z, Max Brooks, 2006
71. The Unit, Ninni Holmqvist, 2006
72. The Road, Cormac Mccarthy, 2006
73. Rina, Kang Young-Sook, 2006
74. Daughters of the North, Sarah Hall, 2007
75. Dance Dance Revolution, Cathy Park Hong, 2007
76. Moxyland, Lauren Beukes, 2008
77. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, 2008-2010
78. The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009
79. The Year of the Rat, Chen Qiufan, 2009
80. Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngary, 2010
81. Ready Player One, Earnest Cline, 2011
82. When She Woke, Hillary Jordan, 2011
83. Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor, 2011
84. The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta, 2011
85. Divergent, Veronica Roth, 2011-2013
86. Zone One, Colson Whitehead, 2011
87. The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson, 2013
88. The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey, 2013
89. Bitch Planet, Kelly Sue Deconnick and Valentine De Landro, 2014
90. On Such a Full Sea, Chang-Rae Lee, 2014
91. California, Edan Lepucki, 2014
92. You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, Alexandra Kleeman, 2015
93. The Just City, Jo Walton, 2015
94. Find Me, Laura Van Den Berg, 2015
95. Gold Fame Citrus, Claire Vaye Watkins, 2015
96. A Planet for Rent, Yoss, 2015
97. Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer, 2016
98. Everything Belongs to the Future, Laurie Penny, 2016
99. Black Wave, Michelle Tea, 2016
100. American War, Omar El Akkad, 2017
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