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Dystopian novels of the 1950s
Dystopian literature first published in the 1950s, 19 titles in all.
Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut · 1952
The Heads of Cerberus
The Heads of Cerberus
Gertrude Barrows Bennett · 1952
The Sound of His Horn
Sarban · 1952
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 1953
Love Among the Ruins
Evelyn Waugh · 1953
One
David Karp · 1953
The Space Merchants
Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth, consumerism, George Mann · 1953
Lord of the Flies
William Golding · 1954
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov · 1954
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham · 1955
Minority Report
Philip K. Dick · 1956
The City and the Stars
Arthur C. Clarke · 1956
The World Jones Made
Philip K. Dick · 1956
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand · 1957
The Naked Sun
Isaac Asimov · 1957
The Rise of the Meritocracy
The Rise of the Meritocracy
Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington · 1958
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr · 1959
Alas, Babylon
Pat Frank · 1959
The John Franklin Letters
The John Franklin Letters
Revilo P. Oliver · 1959