Dystopian Novels and Their Authors Trivia Word Search

Which author's 2016 novel imagines women suddenly able to generate painful electric shocks?

Which author's 1963 novel reverses the usual roles of humans and apes on a distant planet?

In Fahrenheit 451, a robotic tracking creature is used to hunt down fugitives who hide books.

Which author's 1985 novel is set in the theocratic Republic of Gilead?

Which author's 1993 novel follows a boy chosen to hold his community's suppressed memories?

Which author imagined a fascist takeover of the United States in a 1935 novel titled It Can't Happen Here?

In Philip K. Dick's 1956 story Minority Report, psychic '_ _ _ _ _ _ _' foresee murders before they happen.

Which author's 2014 novel follows survivors of a flu pandemic that collapses modern civilization?

Which author's 1968 novel traps drafted prisoners inside a drug-fueled intelligence experiment?

In Brave New World, society's genetically engineered top caste, bred for intelligence and looks, is called the _ _ _ _ _s.

Neal '_ _ _ _ _ _ _son' wrote the 1992 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, which coined the term 'metaverse.'

Which author's 1971 novel follows a man whose dreams literally reshape waking reality?

Which author's 1964 novel Nova Express applied his experimental 'cut-up' writing technique?

Which author's 2017 novel imagines human evolution suddenly and inexplicably running backward?

In The Giver, Jonas is the only person in his community allowed to hold the collective _ _ _ _ _ _ of the past.

Which author's 1968 novel satirizes a future of total isolation lived out through screens?

Which author's 1954 novel follows stranded boys whose society collapses into savagery?

Which author's 1826 novel The Last Man imagines humanity wiped out by a global plague?

Which author's 1968 novel about androids and bounty hunters inspired the film Blade Runner?

Which author's 1960 novel imagines a state that surgically flattens beauty to enforce equality?

Which author's 1938 novel follows a prisoner condemned for the vague crime of 'gnostical turpitude'?

Which author's 1992 novel imagines a world where Nazi Germany won the Second World War?

Which author wrote the 1726 satire Gulliver's Travels, which includes a visit to the floating island of Laputa?

Which author's 1992 novel is set in a world where humanity has quietly become infertile?

Which author's 1895 novel splits future humanity into the gentle Eloi and the underground Morlocks?

Octavia Butler's 1993 novel, set in a California ravaged by climate collapse, is titled '_ _ _ _ _ _ _ of the Sower.'

Which author's 1940 story imagines an America ruled by a religious dictatorship?

Which author's 2005 novel follows clones raised at a boarding school to later donate their organs?

Which author's 1872 novel Erewhon depicts a society that treats illness as a crime?

Which author's 1937 novel pictures a world seven centuries after a Nazi military victory?

Which Polish author published the space-set dystopia Return from the Stars in 1961?

Which author's 1932 novel keeps citizens content with a pleasure drug called soma?

Which author's 2002 novel imagines teenagers with a constant internet connection implanted in their brains?

Which author's 2012 novel follows a pilot in a world nearly emptied by a devastating flu pandemic?

Which author's 1966 novel follows a therapist who can enter and shape his patients' dreams?

Which author's 2013 novel follows an employee at a powerful tech company that steadily erodes privacy?

Which author's 1954 novel pairs a human detective with a robot partner inside an enclosed underground city?

Which author's controversial 1973 novel imagines a mass migration overwhelming France?

British author John Christopher, who wrote the alien-occupation novel The White Mountains in 1967, was born under which real surname?

Which author's 1971 novel imagines a domed, pollution-choked Los Angeles decades in the future?

In a 1985 novel set in the Republic of Gilead, a fertile woman forced to bear children for the elite is a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

Which author's 2011 novel sends its hero escaping a bleak future into a virtual world called the OASIS?

Which author co-created a 1967 novel in which citizens are put to death in a ritual at age 21?

In Divergent, Tris chooses to join the faction that values bravery above all, known as _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

Which author's 1938 novella is set in a future where even the word 'I' has been outlawed?

Nineteen Eighty-Four gave English a term for holding two contradictory beliefs at once: '_ _ _ _ _ _think.'

Which author's 1956 novel is set in the enclosed, ageless city of Diaspar, a billion years in the future?

Which author's 1966 novel warns of a badly overpopulated future New York City?

Which author's 1940 novel Kallocain centers on a truth serum that lets the state read minds?

Which author's 1968 novel imagines therapy that records and replays a patient's emotions for others to relive?

Which author's 2011 novel is set inside a giant underground silo, the last refuge from a poisoned surface?

Which author's 1949 novel is watched over by the ever-present face of a leader called Big Brother?

Which author's 2009 novel traps its characters inside a shifting, monster-filled stone labyrinth?

Which author's 2011 novel is set aboard a generation starship centuries into its long voyage?

Which author's 2010 novel is set in a Society that selects citizens' careers, spouses, and dates of death?

Which author's 1984 novel helped launch the cyberpunk genre and coined the term 'cyberspace'?

Which author's 1942 novel depicts a small town living under foreign military occupation?

Which author's 1959 novel follows monks preserving scraps of knowledge for centuries after a nuclear war?

Suzanne Collins's dystopian games force child 'tributes' to fight for survival; the games are named for this word plus 'Games.'

Which author's 1959 novel follows a Florida town surviving the aftermath of a nuclear war?

Which author's 1980 novel is written in a broken future-English centuries after a nuclear war?

Which author's 1967 story asks 'Why Call Them Back from Heaven?' about a society that freezes its dead?

Which author's 1970 novel follows a world governed entirely by a single, all-controlling computer?

Which author's 1953 novel is named for the temperature at which paper is said to catch fire?

Which author's 1921 novel We gives its citizens numbers instead of names inside a glass-walled city?

In The Hunger Games, the wealthy city that rules over twelve impoverished districts is called the _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

A 1971 dystopia imagines a 1,000-story vertical city; its author's surname's first half is a precious metal: '_ _ _ _ _ _ berg.'

Which author's 1974 novel is narrated from behind an apartment wall that dissolves into another world?

In Brave New World, citizens are kept content by a euphoria-inducing drug named after a mythic plant: _ _ _ _.

Which author's 1965 story pits a rebellious jester against a state obsessed with punctuality?

Which author's 2006 novel follows a father and son walking through an ash-covered wasteland?

Which author's 1995 novel follows a nameless city gripped by a spreading epidemic of white blindness?

Which author's 1882 novel The Fixed Period imagines mandatory euthanasia at age 67?

Which author, better known for children's books, warned of industrial greed destroying a forest in a 1971 story?

Which author's 1952 debut novel imagines a society where machines have replaced most human workers?

The sole ruling political organization of Oceania in Nineteen Eighty-Four is referred to simply as the _ _ _ _ _.

In A Clockwork Orange, Alex undergoes a forced aversion therapy known as the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Technique.

Which author coined the term 'meritocracy' in a 1958 satire about a society ranked by IQ and effort?

Which author co-wrote a 1953 satire of a future ruled entirely by advertising agencies?

Which author's 1925 novel The Trial follows a man prosecuted by a faceless, unreachable bureaucracy?

Which author's 1921 play introduced the word 'robot' to describe artificial factory workers?

Which author's 2010 novel begins with a failed military experiment that creates vampiric predators?

Which author's 1909 story imagines humans living underground, entirely served by a single machine?

Which author's 2008 novel forces children from twelve districts to fight to the death on live television?

Which author's 1908 novel The Iron Heel depicts a ruthless oligarchy crushing a socialist revolt?

Which author's 1879 novel The Begum's Fortune pits a utopian city against a militarized rival?

Which author's 1968 novel depicts a dangerously overcrowded 21st-century Earth?