This year was, to put it as gently as possible, the devil's playground. Oh sure, every year has its horrors and there are far worse annums behind us (the Crusades, anyone?), but 2014 proved to be a ...
At the annual BookExpo America conference in 2010, William Gibson gave a prescient address about the future of the future — or, rather, about the fact that the capital-F Future, the one he’d grown up ...
NEW YORK, May 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A diverse mix of television icons, musicians, and comedians will come together live and unscripted for the 5th Annual Dystopia Tonight with John Poveromo, a ...
Longtime White House correspondent Brian Karem writes a weekly column for Salon. The next world war has begun. Or perhaps, if you’re a philosopher, you’ll say our ongoing existential conflict ...
Dystopia novels seem to be more popular than ever these days. Between The Handmaid's Tale and The Hunger Games and the disturbing resurgence of 1984, the dystopia is dominating science fiction on both ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And with COVID-19, dystopias featuring diseases have taken on new life. Netflix reports a spike in popularity for "Outbreak," "12 ...
In coining the word utopia, Thomas More was making a pun. The villain of Wolf Hall was, in real life, a learned man who wrote for people who could recognize a joke in Greek when he made one. The ...
While one might not think of masala cinema and filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee in the same sentence, his film, Tees, is a unique masala film. Switching through different timelines, the film jumps back and ...
Dystopian fiction is hot. Sales of George Orwell's "1984" and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" have skyrocketed since 2016. Young adult dystopias—for example, Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games ...