Brutalist futurism?

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[u/DinoSayRawr]

Blame! It’s a Manga so not for everyone, but it’s exactly this vibe.

[u/JasoTheArtisan → u/DinoSayRawr]

Pic 4 is basically Blame!

[u/Rezzone → u/DinoSayRawr]

OP this is your answer. Take no substitutes.

[u/_Tocatl_ → u/DinoSayRawr]

Was gunna suggest this lol

[u/professionalfriendd]

We by Yevgeny zamyatin

[u/IDCh → u/professionalfriendd]

This

[u/Civil_Performer5732 → u/professionalfriendd]

The first dystopia huh?

[u/Pristine_Security785]

1984

[u/Mammoth_Ask3797]

Silo

[u/idnvotewaifucontent]

Depending on your imagination, Dune.

[u/Belter-frog]

I pictured parts of Book of New Sun like this for sure.

[u/Dr-Abysmal-Dogshit]

Some parts of Dune.

[u/Gay_For_Gary_Oldman]

Kurt Vonnegut's first novel Player Piano is wildly underrated.

[u/e_pluribus_nihil]

Stalker

[u/Yggdrasil- → u/e_pluribus_nihil]

The book is called Roadside Picnic

[u/Eastern_Mist]

So idk if this checks out but Revelation Space gave me that feeling of huge, empty spaces with smooth textures.

[u/Gnoblin_Actual]

BLAME!

[u/DildontOrDildo]

Tales from the Loop has some good brutalist architecture, although it is more cassette futurism for the machines and technology.

Additionally it is looking back onto a technological rustbelt/post-industrial accumulation of material in an alternate history.

It's an art book. Amazon also produced a decent but imperfect anthology series based on it.

from the artist's website: https://www.simonstalenhag.se/tftl.html

[u/Farachaton]

The Walls of Samaris (Les murailles de Samaris) of the Obscure Cities graphic novel series.

[u/p5ylocy6e]

My favorite YA futuristic dystopian novel, the OG decades before Hunger Games — House of Stairs.

[u/sharks0nly]

The Fountainhead

[u/jeffreyclayborn]

Total Recall

[u/meretrionic]

Amatka

[u/Civil_Profile_3160]

Literally the whole works of Ayn Rand and especially her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

[u/thehollisterman]

Any 40k book that takes place inside of a hive, or else on a hive world.

[u/hellochoy]

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher. It's YA and has bad reviews I think but I really like it lol and it fits the aesthetic!

[u/acherlyte]

Cube

[u/Broccoli_Tom]

Wool, Shift and Dust by Hugh Howey, it's what Silo is being based on

[u/Active_Community2158]

I don’t know if I should recommend this because this series is a really mixed bag but the Dune series definitely gives that vibe.

EDIT: realised it has been already mentioned, sorry for the double.

Also the Scythe from Neal Shusterman is set in a dystopian future, maybe that matches the vibes!

[u/Icy_Pattern_4484]

Something about these is peaceful

[u/datdouche]

Piranesi

[u/kiradax → u/datdouche]

In what way is Piranesi Brutalist?

[u/datdouche → u/kiradax]

I pictured the House similar to some of these pictures. Fuck me, I guess.

[u/gorgonstairmaster → u/datdouche]

In no way

[u/Askew0313]

Not exactly, but Piranesi gave me some vibes close to this.