dystopia
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‘The Sheep Look Up’: This cult 1970s science fiction novel predicted today’s climate crisis
Dan Taylor, The Conversation
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‘Darklands’: Arnav Das Sharma’s coming-of-age novel in an all-too-real Indian dystopia falters
Devarsi Ghosh
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‘The Mask Falling’: Samantha Shannon’s latest novel helps you escape to Paris during the pandemic
Divya Soundararajan
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Will there be love after an environmental apocalypse strikes? A new novel pops the question
Arnav Das Sharma
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Is the pandemic ensuring that the future of speculative fiction lies in today’s reality?
Tashan Mehta
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Intimacy without sex is the contraband service that women of the resistance provide in this novel
Bina Shah
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Samit Basu’s new novel looks at how reality is shaped and what humans can do about it
Diyasree Chattopadhyay
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Can dystopian fiction the ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Divergent’ series shape real-world political attitudes
Calvert Jones, Aeon Celia Paris, Aeon
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Unmade in India: Five homegrown dystopian books that have been where we hope not to go
Annika Taneja
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Working-class women sign up as ‘hosts’ for surrogate babies in this dystopian debut novel
Joanne Ramos
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Margaret Atwood: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ may feel real in 2019, but solutions won’t come from novels
Camilla Nelson, The Conversation
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This novel ‘should not have been written, but had to be written’, according to Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
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How horribly wrong can experiments in science go? This novel of ideas explores the possibilities
Priyadarshi Basu
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Watch: In China, announcement on a train warns citizens to behave or risk losing their credit score
Scroll Staff
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This timely novel explores a dystopian Asian future, the result of interference with nature
Rajat Chaudhuri
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Appupen’s new graphic novel brings hope to the dystopia he sees around us in India right now
Debkumar Mitra
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How far from (or near) are we to the India depicted in Nayantara Sehgal’s new novel?
Nayantara Sahgal
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Orwell vs Huxley vs Zamyatin: Who would win a dystopian fiction contest?
Rajat Chaudhuri
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What would happen if women suddenly had all the power? This novel offers uncomfortable answers
Urvashi Bahuguna
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The future that ‘Leila’ presents is already here, and all of us may be responsible
Trisha Gupta