Came across this list on Goodreads, thanks largely to Molly Spring’s post (which I will reblog next since it’s pretty dawn awesome!). Basically, the table gives graphic representation to historical trends and the popularity of dystopian lit over the past few decades. Though it does preclude Yevengy Zamyatin’s We and Jack London’s The Iron Heel by […]
Dystopia in Popular Culture
by storiesbywilliams on March 29, 2012 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi and tagged 1984, Aldous Huxley, alternate history, ayn rand, Blade Runner, bnw, Brave New World, brazil movie, candide, deckard cain, dr. manhattan, dystopian comics, dystopian future, dystopian movies, erewhon, future noire, george lucas, George Orwell, gullivers travels, it can't happen here, jack london, judge dredd, los angeles 2019, mega city one, ozymandias, raphael hythloday, replicant, Ridley Scott, Rorschach, roy batty, samuel butler, sinclair lewis, Star Wars, the comedian, the handmaids tale, the iron heel, the watchmen, thomas more, tyrell, tyrell corp, V for Vendetta, We, 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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