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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood fits the bill.
It sounds like you should take a stab at Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy. It starts with Oryx and Crake, set in a classist capitalist society with rampant bioengineering. A genius genetically engineers a new species of humans. The Year of the Flood is a companion volume (not a sequel - don't let that trip you up) that covers the same time period from the POV of a child raised in a hippie-ish cult. The third book (MaddAddam) is meant to tie the two narratives together, but I haven't read it yet.
I am going to take issue with that Brave New World and Hunger Games are dystopian, but not science fiction" line. The article linked to explain that distinction is based around the idea that dystopia must involve an ideological critique and uses The Matrix as an illustrative example, but doesn't seem to talk about what makes something science fiction rather than just blanket speculative fiction. (e.g. According to the author, The Matrix is not dystopian because the central narrative line is a messiah's human triumph over machines in thriller format, not the prediction/parable about humanity's end that would mark it as dystopian according to the thesis. I disagree.)
As far as I'm concerned, science fiction incorporates technology and/or science that is conceivable, but not currently available. So I'd say Brave New World's Bokanovsky's Process and The Hunger Games' genetic engineering in the form of mockingjays and tracker jackers as well as the flight craft and force fields and massive leaps in other technologies easily qualify them both as sci-fi. And dystopian.
So ha. ^Though ^you ^might ^get ^me ^to ^argue ^that ^Brave ^New ^World ^is ^actually ^utopian.
More Recommended Dystopian Sci-Fi Reads:
Dystopian and Not Quite Sci-Fi Recommendations:
But really, this whole article setup is eerily reminiscent of the "____ Literary Trope is Not Worthy!" followed by "Rebuttal!" linkbait we've been seeing a lot.
Oryx & Crake
The book is probably the most anti-male piece of literature I have ever read. And it's beautifully written.
I sometimes feel that being a man reading Atwood is like being woman at a screening of a Kubrick movie. Both artist have serious issues with the opposite sex. But damn if they aren't masterful storytellers.
Here are a few I recommend:
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Stand is one of my favorites. I've compiled a list of other books that might be of interest to you.
Oryx and Crake
Handmaid's Tale
World War Z
On the Beach
Wool
The Road
I'll recommend one of my favorite books, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. It's science fiction, but I think if you like fantasy, you could definitely get into this. If you haven't read any Margaret Atwood before, she's amazing.
>Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.
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I'm alternating between Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks and The Long Walk by Stephen King.
Up next: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.