Utopia and dystopia are twins, born at the same moment from the shared ancestry of social critique. Although remembered as the first modern attempt to systematically imagine an ideal society ...

There are plenty of reasons why dystopian fiction is more popular than utopian fiction. A utopia, in the classic sense of the word, is a perfect society in which there is no conflict, and ...

For a while, it seemed as if the only stories anyone wanted to tell were dystopian, but as our own ... “Where are the utopian stories?” I often hear people ask. But as five new books show ...

Dystopian novels allow us an outlet ... who wanted to point out the flaws in their own society by imagining a fictional one. "Utopia" was never meant to be an aspiration, after all.

They could give only one of three responses to each of the seven situations: “utopia,” “dystopia,” or “it ... Technology moves faster than society, and society even has multiple ...

A dystopia is an imagined society characterized by poverty, squalor, oppression and often a nightmare quality. It’s the ...

"This may sound more dystopian than utopian, but Bostrom argues otherwise ... The impact of AI on the economic and social fabric of society has been well documented but some sceptics have ...

A counterpoint to his preeminent dystopian novel “Brave New World ... this novel imagines a free, utopian society on the planet of Triton, where the government has no power to legislate ...