@ Le Chat Noir: those are a series of novels tho, right?
the brief limits me to either a short story or a collection of short poems, and in a short story i think you really need a single central idea or theme
Oh, and its sortakinda sequel Gathering Blue was pretty good. Again, I liked it because it wasn't as bound by the genre conventions so rigidly adhered to by a lot of books nowadays. Again, it's not strictly a dystopia, just a society that has very severely regressed and I also quite like the counterpoint it provided to The Giver. It's been a while since I read either but I remember the writing style for both of them very well conveying the differences between the two cultures- The Giver felt very clean and precise, Gathering Blue felt very dirty and simplistic.
I get rambly when I'm tired but I don't recall ever posting a bunch of stuff like this before.
yeah you only need one central theme in a short story. but if you are using something like a dystopia which is heavily allegorical you need to make sure that the way the allegory is being used to shed additional light on the real subject, it can't be the point in and of itself, which is a thing that lots of people miss.
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RE: non-american heapers: if y'all ever feel the need to visit the united states, i recommend going no further south than Duluth. going past there you can start running into republicans and shit
actually scratch that just go to canada, grab some poutine, and stop over in new york for some shopping on the way back while keeping human contact and interaction to a minimum.
actually scratch that just go to canada, grab some poutine, and stop over in new york for some shopping on the way back while keeping human contact and interaction to a minimum.
Aw, come on, Philadelphia is OK!
Not that the rest of Pennsylvania is great, but...
RE: non-american heapers: if y'all ever feel the need to visit the united states, i recommend going no further south than Duluth. going past there you can start running into republicans and shit
actually scratch that just go to canada, grab some poutine, and stop over in new york for some shopping on the way back while keeping human contact and interaction to a minimum.
Aw, come on, Philadelphia is OK!
Not that the rest of Pennsylvania is great, but...
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the brief limits me to either a short story or a collection of short poems, and in a short story i think you really need a single central idea or theme
i mean i liked 1984, but that's the only strictly dystopian novel i particularly liked
Atwood maintains that her settings aren't strictly dystopian, tho, which i think is fair
you're saying that in a good dystopia the subject is not the allegory itself, but something else which the allegory brings out?
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see i didn't forget
apparently it's some kind of classist slur?