dystopia
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Today, many visions of the future are dominated by collapse, dystopia and fear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
This series sequel enlists Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh to play rough in this dystopia, with Schafer as Cora, a human Blade Runner who teams with Yeoh’s Olwen, a fading replicant.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 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 ● Aug. 18, 2026
It isn’t quite a zombie apocalypse, but life in litigation is its own kind of dystopia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
It would become a corporate-run dystopia, an overpriced theme park for wealthy elitists.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
At a certain point, I started to burn out on dystopias, but then YA changed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
There’s always a cognitive dissonance through our dystopias; how else would we survive them?
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
“I’m a bit of a sucker for science fiction, dystopias or thrillers,” he said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
It's not even that they're better off in dystopias than utopias — they literally don't exist in utopias!
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023
Afrofuturist writers explore a language of dreams and dystopias that expresses our greatest hopes while boldly confronting our darkest fears.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022
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Literary Genres - Introductory
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