Corporate dystopia dystopias

Corporate dystopias replace the state with the firm. Governance is privatized, citizens become consumers or products, and the logic of the market runs without a brake. These novels follow the incentive to its end, imagining a world optimized for profit and indifferent to everything the balance sheet does not count.

21 titles in this subgenre, earliest first.

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  The Fixed PeriodAnthony Trollope · 1882
• Caesar's Column
  Caesar's ColumnIgnatius L. Donnelly · 1890
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  The Time MachineH. G. Wells · 1895
• R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots
  R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal RobotsKarel Čapek · 1920
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  Brave New WorldAldous Huxley · 1932
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  AnthemAyn Rand · 1938
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  The Space MerchantsFrederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth, consumerism, George Mann · 1953
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  Atlas ShruggedAyn Rand · 1957
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  Stand on ZanzibarJohn Brunner · 1968
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  The Jagged OrbitJohn Brunner · 1969
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  The Sheep Look UpJohn Brunner · 1972
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  Limes inferiorJanusz Zajdel · 1982
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  Count ZeroWilliam Gibson · 1986
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  Mona Lisa OverdriveWilliam Gibson · 1988
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  Virtual LightWilliam Gibson · 1993
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  FeedM. T. Anderson · 2002
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  Jennifer GovernmentMax Barry · 2003
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  Oryx and CrakeMargaret Atwood · 2003
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  The Windup GirlPaolo Bacigalupi · 2009
• Submission
  SubmissionMichel Houellebecq · 2015
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  Friday BlackNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah · 2018