dystopia
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‘Glyph’ by Ali Smith: An exhilarating and excoriating follow-up to ‘Gliff’
Sarah Annes Brown, The Conversation
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How George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ predicted the global power shifts now underway
Emrah Atasoy, The Conversation Jeffrey Wasserstrom, The Conversation
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Translated dystopian fiction: A young woman registers her ancestry as she enters adulthood
Soham Guha Sarban Bandyopadhyay
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‘Women can be complicit in systems of violence, especially in families’: Writer Sophie Mackintosh
Diya Isha
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‘Loka’: SB Divya’s sci-fi novel makes a case for cutting off roots and taking off for a better place
Rahul Vishnoi
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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