In honor of Banned Books Week , Geekosystem ’s Susana Polo looks at 10 great science fable novel that have been banned , or at least threatened with remotion from library and schools . Including some major classics of the literary genre !

These titles are among the most popular and beloved science fiction works of the last century . They ’ve tell us how bad the futurity might be before we get there , how free you’re able to be if you do n’t follow unreasoning belief , and that children are utterly capable of digesting some passably ponderous conception , actually . But they ’ve all been banned or threatened with banning .

10 Shade ’s Children by Garth Nix

Shade ’s Children is filled with a creeping dread that the computer intelligence that lead the teenaged chief characters ( through the diabolic waste of our humanity make full with terrific robot soldiers with graft human organic structure parts who fight over territory in a decades long war - game played by three alien tyrants ) does not have their best interests in mind .

Yes , all that other stuff and nonsense is creepy , including the fact that one of the kid did n’t turn tail the prisoner inner circle until after he was castrated , but the real slow revulsion of the volume is that finally Shade is proceed to betray the baby who rely him and learned from him , and no one taught them to think critically enough to see it coming .

entrust caregivers put Shade ’s child on the top 100 banned and dispute books of the nineties .

9 The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Giver sport a dystopian scope where citizens have their sex drive removed , sure women are given the “ task ” of bearing unnaturally sow in children , and where babies are euthanized for developing at a dissimilar stride than others . All ideas and memories , story , and art that would aid in the governance of a society but at the same time induce inconvenient emotion are concur in the intellect of the community ’s Giver , who begin to pass on his gift to the main character Jonas , begin his eventual disillusionment with the position quo . It makes the point that chronicle , memory , and art ; no matter how painful or unmanageable , are still necessary for a go humane society .

A staple of many , many middle and eminent schooling programme , it was also the eleventh most ofttimes challenged book of the nineties , in school districts in South Carolina , Florida , Texas , Ohio , and Colorado .

8 The His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman

say Phillip Pullman on the reaction to his trilogy of children ’s script : “ I ’ve been surprised by how little criticism I ’ve got . Harry Potter ’s been taking all the flak … Meanwhile , I ’ve been fly under the radar , say thing that are far more subversive than anything poor old Harry has said . My books are about bolt down God . ”

The Golden Compass was the 4th most frequently challenge book of 2007 . It rose to 2nd place in 2008 , plausibly because of the “ direct movement that the anti - defamation group the Catholic League launched against the moving picture version of The Golden Compass . ” Their president call it “ godlessness for Kyd . ”

7 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land is a pro - religion , anti - theistical book about free love and the Sapir - Whorf theory , and was controversial even when it was publish in 1962 .

So of course it was challenged as part of the syllabus of a summer “ Science Academy ” course in Texas .

6 Nineteen Eighty - Four by George Orwell

In a textbook exemplar of “ miss the point , ” in 1981 Jackson County , Florida challenged the presence of Orwell ’s Nineteen Eighty - Four in its school and libraries , claiming that the book of account was pro - communism , anti - Semite , and had intimate references .

While that last one is certainly true , it still sounds like somebody only translate the first twenty pages before doing their al-Qur’an news report .

5 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

In 1998 , Fahrenheit 451 was removed from the curriculum in a Mississippi high school because a parent objected to the role of the phrasal idiom “ god damn . ”

Is it ironic if you inhibit a book that condemns the suppression of mark information ?

No , really .

4 A Wrinkle In Time By Madeline L’Engle

A target that seems to be right for the banning power hammer is any playscript that stands firmly on the melodic line between children ’s and adult fabrication .

A Wrinkle in Time is the outset of a four part series by Madeline L’Engle that tackles the the immenseness of clip and the universe , the nature of evil , and the danger of unreasoning impression . But , it ’s get characters known as “ hag ” in it , so it was the22nd most oftentimes challenge book of the 90 ’s .

3 Slaughterhouse - Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Aside from its crunchy science fable app , Slaughterhouse - Five is also a approximate autobiographic report of the author ’s experience as an American prisoner of warfare in World War II , include being present at the fire - bombing of Dresden , Germany where X of M of German civilians were killed by American flock . It is also one of the earliest acknowledgements in popular literature of the fact that the Nazis persecute homophile .

Not only banned ( in New York State , Ohio , Florida , Georgia , and Wisconsin ) and challenged ( in Louisiana , Michigan ( twice ) , Texas , Virginia , Rhode Island , Illinois , Kentucky ( doubly ) , and Wisconsin again ) , written matter of Slaughterhouse - Five were burned in North Dakota in 1973.Book design by Evan McHugh .

2 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World is an representative of being banned for recommend matter that it in fact advocates against , because the volume actually ask you to make up attending to what it is tell you .

It was banned in Ireland in 1932 , a Missouri Ithiel Town in 1980 , an Alabama high school in 2000 ; and challenged in Oklahoma in 1988 , California in 1993 , Texas in 2003 , and Indiana in 2008 . Compliants mostly dwell on the book ’s supposed endorsement of free love , costless drugs , atheism , and rejection of the nuclear family . This would be half - way legitimate if the fictional society upgrade those traits was presented as a Zion , but … it ’s not . Brave New World has been compared to Nineteen Eighty - Four in its part to dystopian science fiction .

Ah , the narrator of relative reliableness . Without it we would n’t have , oh , The Tell Tale Heart , or The Yellow Wallpaper , or Fight Club .

1 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange has taken the lion ’s contribution of disputation for the IP , as visual art is wo nt to do . Word of God , after all , can be boring and take a retentive clock time to end . picture show do n’t discontinue encounter even when you look away , and you’re able to actually get through one in just a couple of hour .

However , in 1973 a store owner in Utah was hold back for sell the book , and though the charge were later overleap , the store was forced to relocate due to the disputation . Later in the 70 ’s it was removed from two high schools for “ objectionable lyric . ” Presumably they did n’t mean bratchny , droog , or garbles .

This post by Susana Polooriginally appear at Geekosystem .

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