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Best 1 Stand on Zanzibar

Stand on Zanzibar is a dystopian science fiction novel written by John Brunner and published in 1968. The novel is set in a hyper-overpopulated 21st-century Earth, drawing its title from the premise that the global population could stand shoulder-to-shoulder on the island of Zanzibar. It is structur...

2 The World Inside

The World Inside is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg, published in 1971. It is set in the year 2381, when most of Earth's population of 75 billion people lives inside massive urban towers called urbmons, each standing a thousand stories tall and housing hundreds of thousands of residents...

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3 The Wanting Seed

"The Wanting Seed" is a 1962 dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess set in an overpopulated future Britain. The government cyclically alternates society between two phases to manage the population crisis: a liberal, pacifist phase that encourages homosexuality and birth control, and an authoritarian, mi...

4 Make Room! Make Room!

Make Room! Make Room! is a 1966 science fiction novel by Harry Harrison about overpopulation in a dystopian future, adapted into the film Soylent Green.

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