Tech dystopia? More like tech pre-dystopia. Black Mirror is not just a television program, but it is a mirror to where we are ...
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 Lidia ...
University of Calgary Sociology professor, Dean Curran, recently wrote a piece in The Conversation about this concept, and he ...
Dystopian fiction is hot. Sales of George Orwell’s “1984” and Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” have skyrocketed since 2016. Young adult dystopias – for example, Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger ...
“Dystopian” TV may seem ubiquitous, but not all dystopias look the same. We asked the creatives behind several series — totalitarian, postapocalyptic or both — to explain how they bring the term to ...
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Jack Coleman (He/Him) is a Lead Editor from Ireland. This is his third full year in games media, having previously worked freelance for various outlets, including NME. A lifelong gamer, Jack is ...
Five years ago, we didn't know who or what a Katniss was. These days, ask anyone about The Hunger Games or Divergent (in theaters March 21) and "dystopia" is bound to come up. So, what's that word ...