Jess Row

My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't.

American Novelist

Oren Etzioni

The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a smart computer will create its own goals and have its own will and will use its faster processing abilities and deep databases to beat humans at their own game.

American Businessman

Veronica Roth

I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.

American Author

Chang-Rae Lee

What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause.

South Korean Novelist

Laura van den Berg

The kind of dystopian books that I've always loved the most are the ones where you find yourself in a world that's less scorched-earth and instead a world that has just been made different.

American Writer

Lauren Oliver

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

Ashish Vidyarthi

It's a dystopian world where things aren't connected. But life feels light when we can communicate, joke or laugh on ourselves.

Indian Actor

Leigh Bardugo

There's been so much hunger for dystopian in the YA world, I really wasn't sure how Shadow and Bone' would be received.

Israeli Author

Andrew Gower

Orwell had a very accurate foresight of today's dystopian world we live in. If only he was around to see it.

English Actor

John Twelve Hawks

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

Author

Used to describe settings that are depressing or alarming, suggesting a negative future or outcome.

Negative Imagery

Often describes imagined scenarios, not real situations, to warn or provoke thought.

Not Realistic

Commonly found in science fiction or speculative fiction genres.

Genre Specific

Refers to someone's role or interest in creating or exploring dystopian themes, not their outlook on life.

Literary Role

A dystopian often constructs narratives exploring societal collapse or degradation.

Storytelling Focus

Being a dystopian means focusing on dark themes, not necessarily holding a pessimistic view in all aspects.

Not Always Pessimistic

 The spy bazaar has gone global. And at arms shows now around the world, you'll see companies displaying facial recognition technology and phone hacking software, displaying right next to traditional arms manufacturers with tanks and missiles. And walking around these arms shows, it's pretty easy to go down dystopian rabbit holes,

Inside the massive (and...

 Brooks and now we have digital screens who knows where we'll end up with the important thing is the story inside the story that will capture any reader and make them fly thousands of meters are gray from the ground and take them to a place only books can take you to for instance I've been to dystopian futures

An ode to the joys of...

 are going to take us into a Utopian future, not a dystopian future. And to explain why, I want to pose a ridiculously broad question. I want to what have been the most important developments in human history? Now, I want to share some of the answers that I've gotten in response to this question.

Andrew McAfee: Are...

 Exactly. Take care of my grandmother and make sure -- It could obviously recognize everyone in the home. It could play catch with your kids. Yes. I mean, obviously, we need to be careful this doesn't become a dystopian situation. I think one of the things that's going to be important

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 meaning it theorizes about possible futures. This is a fundamental characteristic shared by both utopian and dystopian texts. The possible futures in Atwood's novels are usually negative, or dystopian, where the actions of a small group have destroyed society as we know it.

Why should you read "The...

 as a masterpiece of dystopian fiction. Dystopian fiction as a genre amplifies troubling features of the world around us and imagines the consequences of taking them to an extreme. In many dystopian stories, the government imposes constrictions onto unwilling subjects.

Why should you read...

 like atomic energy, artificial intelligence, and space travel meant for humanity's future. Contrasting with popular visions of shining progress, dystopian science fiction expanded to films, comics, and games. Robots turned against their creators

How to recognize a...

 In this dystopian world, your resistance group is humanity's last hope. Unfortunately, you've all been captured by the tyrannical rulers and brought to the ancient colosseum for their deadly entertainment. Before you're thrown into the dungeon,

Can you solve the...

 yeah already find out what a job is if we can redefine building communities or raising kids as a very important job and maybe it is the most important job of all and pay for that then many of these dystopian scenarios

Yuval Noah Harari...

 And then there's social media. I can imagine some pretty frickin' dystopian scenarios where things like internet quizzes, dating apps, horoscopes, bots, all combine to drag you down deeper and deeper rabbit holes