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Dystopic fiction can be bracingly enjoyable, in the same way that listening to the Blues (or Joy Division, or whatever) can actually cheer you up.
MIND MELD: Why is Genre Fiction Bleak and What Can Be Done About It? 2009
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"Change" was promised and was delivered in the form of a deepening of the already Dystopic nightmare.
The Obama Dystopia 2009
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Dystopic visions of the future like George Orwell's 1984 (1948) or Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (1924) owe their freedom to imagine the worst from Wells.
Archive 2008-11-01 Dark Worlds Club 2008
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Dystopic films are awesome; even the really bad ones hold a grain of interest for me, as I'm sure they do to others.
"Pure violence and stupidity." Ann Althouse 2008
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Dystopic visions of the future like George Orwell's 1984 (1948) or Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (1924) owe their freedom to imagine the worst from Wells.
Horror Science Fiction Dark Worlds Club 2008
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Dystopic-esque speculative fiction tends to hit my squee-buttons.
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Dystopic future novels are really tricky cause you have to create a world that is both oddly familiar and yet new.
HH Com 167 Miss Snark 2006
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Dystopic future novels are really tricky cause you have to create a world that is both oddly familiar and yet new.
12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006 Miss Snark 2006
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Dystopic future novels are really tricky cause you have to create a world that is both oddly familiar and yet new.
Archive 2006-12-17 Miss Snark 2006
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"Change" was promised and was delivered in the form of a deepening of the already Dystopic nightmare.
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