Just finished reading Brave New World, I really liked the different social norms in the book. I would like another book with different social norms and rules.
Any Suggestions?
Posted Aug 10, 2014, 12:50 AM UTC
I'm twenty, but I still really enjoyed [The Giver] (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3636.The_Giver?ac=1) by Lois Lowry. Alternatively, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is completely and utterly brilliant.
if you're looking for futuristic, utopia-type societies, try the culture series by iain banks
The City and the City by China Mieville.
Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - colonists on the moon develop different social norms, plan revolution against Earth.
Le Guin, The Dispossessed - colony that lives by extreme anarchist principles. Contrasted with extreme capitalist society that main character travels to.
Asimov, The Caves of Steel. Future NY that is enclosed, crowded, with very different social norms. Contrasted with "spacer" society, and introduction of robots. Also a great murder mystery.
Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time. Oppressed and believed to be crazy, a woman somehow travels in time to two possible futures, one utopian and one dystopian. Really dramatic and moving.