What do you think of when you hear the words Sci-Fi? Chances are, the words inspire images such as the one above, of nightmarish landscapes featuring clogged streets, flying cars, neon lights and massive skyscrapers. Or possibly you’re partial to the more utopian visions, with space travel, beautiful arcologies and happy shiny people who want […]
Dystopia in Popular Culture
by storiesbywilliams on March 29, 2012 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi and tagged 1984, George Orwell, Brave New World, Star Wars, Aldous Huxley, Blade Runner, V for Vendetta, Ridley Scott, tyrell, future noire, george lucas, the watchmen, Rorschach, the comedian, dr. manhattan, ozymandias, alternate history, dystopian future, bnw, We, jack london, the iron heel, candide, gullivers travels, judge dredd, mega city one, dystopian movies, dystopian comics, los angeles 2019, brazil movie, tyrell corp, deckard cain, roy batty, replicant, it can't happen here, the handmaids tale, thomas more, samuel butler, erewhon, ayn rand, raphael hythloday, sinclair lewis, when fascism comes to america it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross
Picking up where I left off last time, I thought I’d get into some examples of how dystopian fiction has influenced popular culture. And given all the feedback I got on my previous post, I also wanted to incorporate some suggested titles as well. But, just to be clear, I still haven’t read Hunger Games, […]
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Dystopian Science Fiction
by storiesbywilliams on March 26, 2012 in Books, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged 1984, airstrip one, Balnibarbi, bnw, Brave New World, Brobdingnag, brotherhood of man, candide, D-503, doublethink, dystopian literature, Eastasia, eloi, Eurasia, everhard manuscript, f451, Farenheit 451, George Orwell, Glubbdubdrib, goldstein manifesto, gulliver, gullivers travels, h.g. wells, handmaids tale, Houyhnhnms, I-330, jack london, jonathon swift, Julia, Laputa, leibnizian optimism, lisbon earthquake, Luggnagg, lulliput, MEPHI, morlocks, newspeak, Oceania, samuel goldstein, satirical literature, Soma, the first revolt, the green wall, the intergral, the iron heel, the mercenaries, the oligarchs, the one state, the second revolt, the time machine, the traveller, the world state, thoughtcrime, Totalitarianism, voltaire, We, William Gibson, winston smith, world war III, wwIII, yevgeny zamyatin
Lately, I’ve been feeling kind of dystopian! Perhaps it’s the fact that I’m working on an anthology of dark science fiction with some fellow writer’s over at Goodreads (called Writer’s Worth). Or it might just be that this seemed like the next logical step in the whole “conceptual science fiction” thing. Regardless, when it comes […]
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