Dystopia
A genre depicting an oppressive, dehumanizing society, often used to critique real political and social tendencies.
Dystopia in fiction: 14 works
Its enervated, screen-mediated subterranean society is a prescient dystopia.
It is a foundational dystopia that shaped the totalitarian-state tradition.
Its dehumanizing industrial city is a foundational cinematic dystopia.
The World State is a defining dystopia of pleasure-based control.
Oceania is the archetypal totalitarian dystopia of surveillance and repression.
Its book-burning, screen-numbed society is a canonical dystopia.
Its near-future England of youth violence and state conditioning is a bleak dystopia.
Its overcrowded, resource-starved future city is a grim ecological dystopia.
Gilead is a defining patriarchal-theocratic dystopia.
The sleek, genetically stratified society is a quiet dystopia of biological determinism.
Its authoritarian, refugee-caging near-future Britain is a stark dystopia.
The Capitol's exploitation of the districts is a defining young-adult dystopia.
Its anthology of near-future technology-gone-wrong stories are pointed dystopian fables.
The cultlike corporation Lumon is a claustrophobic corporate dystopia.