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People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel. -- Lois Lowry
People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. -- Lois Lowry
I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.' -- Lois Lowry
What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause. -- Chang-Rae Lee
Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments. -- Sarah Hall
Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future. -- Lauren Oliver
People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I love fantasy.' I don't know that people are necessarily finishing 'Hunger Games' and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale. -- David Levithan
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions. -- Samantha Shannon

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