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THE LAST MAN IN ENGLAND
A man grapples with his identity in a dystopian England Continue Reading THE LAST MAN IN ENGLAND
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OBLIVION
After a coup, women take power Continue Reading OBLIVION
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Book Review: Future Home of the Living God, by Louise Erdrich
Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich’s latest novel…takes the idea of a ‘retrieval of history’ seriously – not just in its pale liberal version (‘memory’), but as the ...
The Book-Burner and the Post-Truther: Why Fahrenheit 451 is a Book for the Age of Trump
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s dystopian screed against anti-intellectualism and the sinister influence of popular culture, is an all too appropriate tome for the Age of Trump. Continue Reading ...
What Good Looks Like
The school of the future. Continue Reading What Good Looks Like
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Book Review: The Circle by Dave Eggers
Are our increasingly interconnected real and online lives a slow march towards totalitarianism or a renewal of democracy? David Eggers’ novel offers one such vision of the near future. ...
Immersive Dystopia: Forget Me Not at the Etcetera Theatre
Forget Me Not, an immersive show at Etcetera Theatre, imagines a dystopian world in which all art and creativity is banned. Ana Malinovic is impressed… Continue Reading Immersive ...
One Man’s Dystopia: an Interview with Wayne Simmons
I had a very clear idea of the world in my mind and, in a way, that gave birth to the characters who in turn gave birth to the story. ...
Dystopia: Listen
“I remember turning on the radio and hearing the DJ, one of those brash types who boom their voices across the airwaves. But he sounded confused, vulnerable… After a while ...
Dystopia: Blue Pill, Yellow Pill
“I don’t know how long it’s been since the procedure took place. Time doesn’t pass the same way when you are immortal; the days don’t touch me anymore. I may ...
Dystopia: Summerblind
“The mouths of the Summerblind twitched at the edges. They smacked their lips and rolled their tongues until they found words. Their murmurs drifted out of alleys and doorways and ...
Dystopia: Love and Transformation
“The trees emit bright-coloured gas, so does the ground. It’s like everything is bleeding. We’ll run out of food in a year, but I can hardly think about ...
Dystopia: Rota
“With dogged obsession, Rota traced a figure eight into the thick glass looking out onto the surface of the planet. Eight weeks, eight months, eight years… he couldn’t remember. The ...
Dystopia: Joe’s Ark
“That night Joe had The Dream again. Somewhere warm and bright, a mountain held its ground, but somewhere silver, grey and blue, a sea-bed began to boil, and vast walls ...
Dystopia: Kids Come Looking. Kids Come Back.
“I found Lilian with them where I’d left her playing on the sandbanks, a boy and a girl, the girl maybe nine, the boy younger, both emaciated, their clothes slack ...
Dystopia: Prima Facie
“Tom thought how quickly he and his friends had slipped into this; their dreams recorded, tagged and uploaded, the joking that would result. ” Continue Reading Dystopia: Prima ...
Dystopia: A New Religion for Fatherless Sons
“When he fell out of his coffin, I cried like life was crazy, hid under my chair and prayed—Please don’t let this be a dream. It took one night for ...
Dystopia: Immune
“The three children looked identical now, grey skin, steel irises, white hair. Products of Surgically Induced Albinism and marks of their entrance into the Republic’s SIA population.” Continue ...
Blade Runner: Misery-fest or Masterpiece?
“When it all boils down, the most perfect example of dystopia, for me, is not to be found in literature, it’s to be found in film. One particular film, in ...
Dystopia: “Are There Any Paranoids in the Theatre Tonight?”: Roger Waters’s The Wall as Dystopian Spectacle
“Are there any paranoids in the theatre tonight?” asked Roger Waters in his spectacular revival of Pink Floyd’s dystopian classic The Wall at Wembley Stadium. Whether it’s excessive surveillance, institutional ...