Michael Moorcock a publié un article sur les meilleures dystopies dans le cadre d'un dossier du Guardian sur les 1000 romans indispensables.

Voici le début :
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George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-four (1949)
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Frederik Pohl & CM Kornbluth: The Space Merchants (1953)
Angus Wilson: The Old Men at the Zoo (1961)
Thomas M Disch: Camp Concentration (1968)
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Joanna Russ: The Female Man (1975)

A dystopia, being the opposite of a utopia, must describe a whole society that has degenerated into something fundamentally nasty, as in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932). While I prefer Rex Warner's subtle dystopia The Aerodrome (1941), in which the glamorous Airmen run a state presenting itself via a "folkish" England of village cricket and vicarage fetes, Nineteen Eighty-four remains the world's favourite dystopia. This iconic allegory of the authoritarian state introduced dozens of words and phrases into our language and deserves its benchmark status. "

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