Dystopian Novels
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Can dystopian fiction the ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Divergent’ series shape real-world political attitudes
The genre offers a powerful lens through which to view the ethics of politics and power.
Calvert Jones, Aeon & Celia Paris, Aeon
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It has been 70 years since Orwell wrote 1984. It may as well have been an essay on 2019
The dystopian classic has thought-crime, telescreens and the rewriting of news and history. We have surveillance, reality TV and fake news.
Stephen Groening, The Conversation
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Orwell vs Huxley vs Zamyatin: Who would win a dystopian fiction contest?
Revisiting three ground-breaking novels in the genre. Which one’s closest to our world today?
Rajat Chaudhuri
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