Utopian fiction dares to hope that we can, and will, be better. And I don’t know about you, but I could really use that dream right now. There are plenty of reasons why dystopian fiction is more ...

Science fiction is a genre filled with endless ... still waters run deep. Utopia, dystopia’s lighter twin, can be just as gripping and provocative. Take any of these examples.

This is where the power of utopian literature shines ... A counterpoint to his preeminent dystopian novel “Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley’s last novel, “Island,” follows a news reporter ...

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 ...

Marge Piercy explored both utopian and dystopian futures in Woman ... On the other hand, dystopian fiction asks the question: “If this goes on, what is going to happen?” In other words ...

Therefore, he claimed, any utopian thinker was dystopian instead. Most dystopian fiction today is set around that basic premise. A society thinks they’ve figured out a better way, like The Giver ...

A dystopia is an imaginary world deliberately conceived as being worse than our own; a utopian one conceived as better. But many science fiction worlds are neither better nor worse – merely ...

(The Frick Collection) Utopia and dystopia are twins ... authoritarianism thread their way through newscasts and popular fiction. Whether it’s Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Margaret Atwood ...

an ethicist at Harvard who teaches a course on utopia and dystopia in fiction and philosophy. “You look to fiction to see how people are wrestling with serious problems.” That's valuable for ...

Afrofuturism pioneers such as jazz musician Sun Ra—who walked around the streets of Chicago with custom-made electric space suits in the 1950s—and science fiction author Octavia Butler wouldn ...

Please contact us at [email protected] for help. This month, Outward explores utopian fiction and dystopian reality TV. First, Bryan and Christina are joined by author Theodore McCombs to discuss ...