The book that best applies to our times

[gabriel alexander]

What do you guys think? Am I right when I say that The Sheep Look Up is the book that best describes the times we live in?

 

[soulsinging]

I'm not familiar with that one, but will take a look. I've always said Catch-22, with its themes of human life being reduced to fodder for burueacracy, ambition and capitalism seems rather on point, if you can get past some of its other flourishes that haven't aged quite so well (although its treatment of women is perhaps timely as an example of the excesses/attitudes leading to the me too movement).

 

[BAYLOR]

In Caverns Below by Stanton Coblentz and an early science fiction satire thats become surprisingly relevant again

The Humanoids by Jack Williamson The consequences of technology dependency is one its these and is applicable today.

 

[Finch]

I think John Brunner's is a good choice. You could of also chosen Stand on Zanzibar . But Brunner is more about the anxiety of the time of writing. All the problems we have now were know about in the nineteen sixties . More of a prediction of things to come is George Orwell's 1984. His world is were the ever expanding economy has ended and most people struggle on basic rations . The truth has become manufactured and the enemy are the hordes of foreigners the what to steal your good fortune.

 

[mosaix]

I'm not familiar with that one, but will take a look. I've always said Catch-22, with its themes of human life being reduced to fodder for burueacracy, ambition and capitalism seems rather on point, if you can get past some of its other flourishes that haven't aged quite so well (although its treatment of women is perhaps timely as an example of the excesses/attitudes leading to the me too movement).

I think John Brunner's is a good choice You could of also chosen Stand on Zanzibar . But Brunner is more about the anxiety of the time of writing. All the problems we have now were know about in the nineteen sixties . More of a prediction of things to come is George Orwell's 1984. His world is were the ever expanding economy has ended and most people struggle on basic rations . The true has become manufactured and the enemy are the hordes of foreigners the what to steal your good fortune.

Difficult to pick between these two.

Everything @soulsinging says is true but who'd have thought, even ten years ago, that there'd be cameras and microphones in our homes (not mine!) that recorded video and voice remotely and, even more weirdly, that we'd installed them ourselves?

 

[Extollager]

One could make a case for David Williams's When the English Fall.