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3.2 Novels
ОглавлениеAtwood, Margaret. 2003. Oryx and Crake.
Brown, Dan, 2013. Inferno.
Coetzee, J.M. 1999. The Lives of Animals.
DeLillo, Don. 2016. Zero K.
Egan, Greg. 1995. Distress.
Ghosh, Amitav. 1995. The Calcutta Chromosome.
Gibson, William 1984. Neuromancer.
The Sprawl trilogy is Gibson’s first set of novels, composed of Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988). It is set in a near-future world dominated by ubiquitous technology and powerful corporations, and guided by mind-machine interface (MMI), emerging machine intelligence, and global information space (“cyberspace”).
Huxley, Aldous. 1932. Brave New World.
Hornung, Eva. 2009. Dog Boy.
Ishiguro, Kazuo. 2005. Never Let Me Go.
Lanchester, John. 2019. The Wall.
In his latest novel, the author of The Capital (2012) recounts a dystopian story after a climatic event, when movement between countries is outlawed, and the UK has turned into a fortress, which is walled in concrete and controlled by British youngsters looking for “Others”. Lanchester’s disquieting environmental anti-utopia was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019.
Lowry, Lois. 1993. The Giver (Film: 2015)
Shelley, Mary. 1818. Frankenstein.
Simmons, Dan. 1991. Hyperion.
Wells, Herbert George. 1896. The Island of Dr. Moreau.