What if the future isn’t bright, but bleak? That’s the question dystopian films keep dragging back to the table. No utopias here, just broken systems, dead cities, and futures run by fear, tech, or ...

FREDONIA — A Fredonia man has published his first novel, set in the dystopian future after a second American Civil War. Anthony Guiffreda, who graduated from Panama Central School in 2003 and now ...

The metaverse, expanded virtual reality and wearable technology that translates language live. These are topics from recent news cycles, but they're also key plot elements in “Coldwire” (out now from ...

Dystopian societies have been a focal point of fiction for decades, dating back to novels that critiqued the rise of tyranny in the twentieth century. Often merged with science fiction, these stories ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Halloween has come and gone, but we’re still scared. Whether your greatest fear is a totalitarian regime, ...

Driverless cars, e-scooters, and cruise ships have become targets for people’s rage. But they’re really emblematic of bigger problems in today’s cities. The conflicts are about something else, but ...

Artificial intelligence has been the subject of many dystopian novels and movies, but it's become apparent that AI will intersect with more and more aspects of our lives and careers. On this River to ...

Asif Kapadia's 2073 received little attention when it came out near the end of 2024. It’s not exactly holiday fare: this vision of a bleak dystopian future wracked by environmental cataclysms and ...

No matter her subject matter, Naomi Alderman’s stories always seem to arrive right on time. Her award-winning novel, The Power, was first published in early 2016, just before the United States would ...

In a world where civilization and the environment that birthed it has been decimated by myriad human-made cruelties, the question remains: will humans ever learn? In this post-apocalyptic riff on ...

Starring Ji Sung, Won Jin-ah and Park Hee-soon, The Judge Returns is set in a dystopian near-future Seoul torn open by ...

These days, it is hard to ignore how often AI finds itself in the headlines. The emerging technology has major implications in the future of medicine and financing, but not everyone is on board with ...