SPOILER ALERT: &quot;But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.&quot; - 1984
Haunting last line. All struggle is futile; acceptance is inevitable. So yeah, pretty bleak, but favorite book nonetheless.
I also love Kurt Vonnegut&#x27;s Slaughterhouse 5, which while not classically dystopian, still manages to elicit dystopian stoic despair against the backdrop of a seemingly normal world (our very own time and age). It automatically coaxs readers to draw parallels..maybe dystopia is not something imagined. Maybe it&#x27;s more familiar than we think.
Lastly, Robert A. Heinlein needs to be mentioned at least once in this thread; Farnham&#x27;s Freehold and a Stranger in a Strange Land.