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  1. Jun 24, 2024 · The counter to utopia is dystopia, in which hopes for betterment are replaced by electrifying fears of the ugly consequences of present-day behaviour. Utopias tended to have a placid gloss of phony benevolence , while dystopias displayed a somewhat satanic thunder.

    • Bruce Sterling
  2. Jul 6, 2024 · Every age gets the dystopian nightmares it most fears: In the 1930s and ’40s, it was George Orwell and Aldous Huxley’s visions of totalitarianism; at the millennium, it was dark imaginings of...

  3. Jun 21, 2024 · Utopia - Satire, Dystopia, Fiction: Many utopias are satires that ridicule existent conditions rather than offering practical solutions for them. In this class are Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (1872).

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. Jun 26, 2024 · Roughly 26 percent of men said they were living in a dystopian society, compared to just 14 percent of women, according to the survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers. A protester holds a sign that says...

  5. Jun 20, 2024 · English writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair, was born in India at the turn of the 20th Century and went on to write commentary on the threat of totalitarianism, democratic...

  6. Jul 6, 2024 · 9. I,Robot. (Spectra) Before it was a movie with Will Smith, I, Robot was a sprawling sci-fi novel written by one of science fiction’s best and brightest: Isaac Asimov. In a not to distant ...

  7. Jun 28, 2024 · Alice Robinson’s third novel (and second foray into speculative fiction) begins with a mother’s bittersweet “second chance at life” – one she never asked for. One hundred years in the future,...

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