Art forever changed by World War I. Art forever changed by World War I. News. Home Page ... “World War I definitely gives a push forward to the idea of dystopia rather than utopia, ...

Loosely adapting the 1995 film of the same name, the sci-fi dystopian series 12 Monkeys starts its story in the year 2045.

It's one of art and family and memory and community and the awful courage it takes to look upon the world with fresh and hopeful eyes." 03 of 20 The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895) ...

A post on GoodReads today suggests that the focus of dystopian fictions is shifting from the 1930s-1960s, when fear of the state was the driving force, to a new-found focus on... Young Adult romance.

As science fiction writers, Nicky Drayden and Christopher Brown believe that you can’t create a convincing future unless you keep an eye on the present. Dystopian novels, Brown has argued ...

Eerily, this book is set in an imagined 2024 world ravaged by drugs, disease, war and drought. Lauren Olamina is a preacher’s daughter who lives in one of the only remaining safe neighborhoods ...

Frostpunk is a dystopian look at society as it exists on an Earth that has completely frozen over. Humans rely on steam-powered machines, fighting the cold world with heat, and society as we know ...

Ok, before I get ahead of myself, I want to back up a bit. I've liked dystopian fiction probably since high school, when I read several of the classics of the genre: Fahrenheit 451, Brave New ...

This war, which was prolonged over three different battles, turned into a massacre of over 15,000 people set in place by the State of Brazil towards the small rural town of Canudos.

The year 1984 has come and gone; yet; George Orwell’s nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is still the great modern classic of negative Utopia.

During a book tour stop in Portland, Oregon earlier this year, author Jeff VanderMeer (Borne, the Southern Reach Trilogy) met up with two speculative-fiction contemporaries: Omar El Akkad and ...