Query: English Dystopian novels that are not about disasters.
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Altered Carbon
The Sleeper Awakes
Fugue for a Darkening Island
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The Guardians (Christopher novel)
A Clockwork Orange (novel)
A Dusk of Demons
The Fixed Period
Market Forces
The City and the Stars
Vril
The First Men in the Moon
The Wanting Seed
Evidence from documents: Altered Carbon: '''''Altered Carbon''''' is a 2002 cyberpunk novel by the English writer Richard K. Morgan. Set in a future in which interstellar travel and relative immortality is facilitated by transferring consciousnesses between bodies ("sleeves"), it follows the attempt of Takeshi Kovacs, a former U.N. elite soldier turned private investigator, to investigate a rich man's death. It is followed by the sequels ''Broken Angels'' and ''Woken Furies''.
The Sleeper Awakes: '''''The Sleeper Awakes''''' is a dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London in which he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities.
Fugue for a Darkening Island: '''''Fugue for a Darkening Island''''' (published in the US as '''''Darkening Island''''') is a dystopian novel by Christopher Priest. First published in 1972, it deals with a man's struggle to protect his family and himself in a near future England ravaged by civil war.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill: is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternative reality of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology nor changes in the class system or attitudes of the time.
The Guardians (Christopher novel): '''''The Guardians''''' is a young-adult science fiction novel written by John Christopher and published by Hamilton in 1970.
A Clockwork Orange (novel): '''''A Clockwork Orange''''' is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called "Nadsat", which takes its name from the Russian suffix that is equivalent to '-teen' in English.
A Dusk of Demons: '''''A Dusk of Demons''''' is a young adult science fiction novel written by the British author John Christopher and published in 1993. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future in England where it is believed that demons rule Earth.
The Fixed Period: Dystopian novels: '''''The Fixed Period''''' (1882) is a satirical dystopian novel by Anthony Trollope.
that are not about disasters.: ''The Fixed Period'' is set in the year 1980 in the Republic of Britannula, a fictional island in the vicinity of New Zealand, and deals with euthanasia as a radical solution to the problem of the aged.
Market Forces: '''''Market Forces''''' is a science fiction thriller novel by British writer Richard Morgan. Set in 2049, the story follows Chris Faulkner as he starts his new job as a junior executive at Shorn Associates, working in their Conflict Investment division where the company supports foreign governments in exchange for a percentage of the country's gross domestic product. Contracts are awarded, and promotions are given to employees, through driving duels in which combatants race vehicles on empty roads and often kill their opponents. With the Shorn-supported Colombian dictator Echevarria expected to transfer power to his son, who is supported by a competing firm, Chris allies Shorn with a rebel group to overthrow the government, though other executives attempt to sabotage his plans.
The City and the Stars: '''''The City and the Stars''''' is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1956. This novel is a complete rewrite of his earlier ''Against the Fall of Night'', Clarke's first novel, which had been published in ''Startling Stories'' magazine in 1948 after John W. Campbell, Jr., editor of ''Astounding Science-Fiction'', had rejected it, according to Clarke.


Several years later, Clarke revised his novel extensively and renamed it ''The City and the Stars''. The new version was intended to showcase what he had learned about writing, and about information processing. The major differences are in individual scenes and in the details of his contrasting civilizations of Diaspar and Lys. ''Against the Fall of Night'' remained popular enough to stay in print after ''The City and the Stars'' had been published. In introductions to it Clarke has told the anecdote of a psychiatrist and patient who admitted that they had discussed it one day in therapy, without realizing at the time that one had read one novel and one the other.
Vril: The narrator finds his way into a subterranean world occupied by beings who seem to resemble angels.
The First Men in the Moon: he First Men in the Moon''''' is a scientific romance by the English author H. G. Wells, originally serialised in ''The Strand Magazine'' from December 1900 to August 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901, who called it one of his "fantastic stories"
The Wanting Seed: is a dystopian novel by the English author Anthony Burgess, written in 1962.
Although the novel addresses many societal issues, the primary subject is overpopulation and its relation to culture.