Oro

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1984

Orwell invented the vocabulary every dystopian work still borrows

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All Quiet on the Western Front

The anti-war novel — inside the trenches of WWI with no glory, only mud

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House of Leaves

The most formally inventive horror novel — the house that defies space, the text that defies reading

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Spec Ops: The Line

A third-person shooter that becomes an indictment of the genre and its players

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Silent Hill 2

The greatest horror game — a journey into guilt and self-punishment

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Cyberpunk 2077

Night City is late-stage capitalism as a playground and a warning

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Apocalypse Now

Coppola's hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a journey into the heart of darkness

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Hereditary

Ari Aster's debut — grief as a haunting, family as a trap

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Black Mirror

Brooker's anthology of technology-enabled social collapse