dystopia
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Today, many visions of the future are dominated by collapse, dystopia and fear.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 22, 2026
Euphemistically known as “mobile lounges,” these hulking, 40-ton machines from the 1960s and ’70s look and feel like paramilitary vehicles trundling through a desert dystopia.
From Slate β Aug. 18, 2026
But while the earlier work describes a futurist dystopia, “Glyph” takes place in present-day England, where the siblings Petra and Patricia Wild have reconnected after decades of grudging silence.
From The Wall Street Journal β May 22, 2026
If that accounts for the “cyber” aspect of our cyberpunk dystopia, where’s the punk?
From Salon β Feb. 20, 2026
It would become a corporate-run dystopia, an overpriced theme park for wealthy elitists.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Alternative histories, particularly dystopias, reflect their societies’ radical pessimism, as Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore suggested in 2017:
From Salon β May 17, 2025
At a certain point, I started to burn out on dystopias, but then YA changed.
From Los Angeles Times β Apr. 14, 2025
There’s always a cognitive dissonance through our dystopias; how else would we survive them?
From Slate β Oct. 28, 2024
Afrofuturist writers explore a language of dreams and dystopias that expresses our greatest hopes while boldly confronting our darkest fears.
From Scientific American β Sep. 18, 2022
Her art depicts the beautiful and the grotesque, earthly landscapes and sci-fi dystopias, human bodies and cyborgs — in a style that fuses art-making traditions with high-tech contemporary techniques.
From New York Times β Aug. 30, 2022
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Literary Genres - Introductory
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