Utopian/Dystopian Fiction
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Moxyland by Lauren Beukes, Reviewed
Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow and Walter Jon Williams are name-checked, but the influences of the Lucky Strike parties and other South African stories are equally strong. more...
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Reviewed
Marcus Yallow - aka W1n5t0n or M1k3y - becomes a teenage victim of his government's War on Terror after a terrorist attack on San Francisco in this fine YA novel from Tor more...
The Holy Machine by Chris Beckett
The Holy Machine shares themes with several Beckett shorts; La Macchina from which it took its central idea, Valour, The Turing Test, Perimeter and Piccadilly Circus more...
This debut novel has the stunning tag-line THERE IS BUT ONE LAW: EAT OR BE EATEN, and is more reminiscent of Golding's Lord of the Flies than Tarzan or The Truman Show. more...
Burn is the Nebula Award winning novella by James Patrick Kelly from Tachyon Books; an Asimov's regular, Kelly's magnificent novella is set on the colony planet Walden. more...
The new novel by Pushcart Prize, Rhysling, and Stoker award-winning Bruce Boston is The Guardener's Tale, a dark story from Sam's Dot Publishing set in a future dystopia more...
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Ursula K. LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Michelle White
Ursula K. LeGuin's award-winning speculative novel introduces the Ekumen, a unanimity-based Utopian institution featured in other works of LeGuin's Hainish cycle. more...
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress & Authoritarianism
By: Nancy Baker
In The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Heinlein shows a positive anarchist society in conflict with an authoritarian regime, allowing him to criticize 20th century society. more...
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Anarchism
By: Nancy Baker
Robert Heinlein's utopian vision of a lunar community displays his social ideals, but also their limitations. more...
By: Nancy Baker
Robert Heinlein often criticized modern society. In The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, he uses a lunar revolt to implicate 20th century social structure. more...
The Golden City by John Twelve Hawks
By: Philip McIntosh
This trilogy began with "The Visitor" and continued with "The Dark River". Now John Twelve Hawks completes the story of the Travelers and the Harlequins that guard them. more...
Scores of science fiction books have been written with a dark, dystopian slant. The following is an introduction to clear examples of dystopia in literature. more...
Kurt Vonnegut's Short Story Harrison Bergeron
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Megan B. Wyatt
Vonnegut's short story demonstrates the dangers of governmental control and ignorance through showing what a true equality could lead to. more...
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