Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An imaginary place or society characterized by misery and oppression; a dystopia.
- noun A work describing such a place or society.
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- noun A
world that is the opposite of autopia , i.e.flawed andmaximally unpleasant .
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Examples
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It is not translated yet but his famous and provocative anti-utopia about Russia's eternal fate - «ЖД» (in English it is titled Jewhad) will soon be on the bookshelves of real and virtual bookshops and I advise all readers and critics who vote for "intellectual" SciFi and "Gogol-style" Russian literature to pay attention to it.
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You are totally drawn in as this Istanbul of the year 2027 unfolds in a saga worthy of the Blade Runner tradition of anti-utopia fame.
Archive 2010-06-01 Lou Anders 2010
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As James Cameron is gearing up to build a mammoth and unprecedented cybernetic anti-utopia in "Battle Angel Alita" it wouldn't be wise for Spielberg to mount something conceptually and thematically similar.
Steven Spielberg Might Direct the Robopocalypse Movie Next « FirstShowing.net 2010
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It is an anti-utopia, where Humans or Earthians have destroyed the planet through overpopulation and environmental atrocities.
Discovering New Authors Brigindo 2009
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Dystopian: A dystopia from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia,1 kakotopia or anti-utopia is a fictional society that is the antithesis of utopia.
In Darkness » Blog Archive » Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time 2007
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It takes its place as an anti-utopia, or a dystopia, in a long line of twentieth-century dystopias by authors beginning with Wells and London and continuing with Zamyatin and Huxley.
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In European eyes, America has always been one thing or the other and usually one of the antipodal extremes: paradise or purgatory, pastoral tranquility or blazing violence, idyllic utopia or diabolical anti-utopia, land of promise or land of savagery.
Spaghetti West Woodward, C. Vann 1981
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Creative minds like George Orwell, Ayn Rand, Ray Bradbury and Aldous Huxley have explored that idea extensively in fiction, shaping our modern understanding of the dystopia -- or anti-utopia -- along the way.
IGN Wii 2009
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Bajo las hojas [Beneath the Leaves] by Israel Centeno is the novel about an anti-utopia that represents Venenezuela in the field of the 10 finalists for the III Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América award.
Venepoetics 2009
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The situation of an anti-utopia also offers fertile ground for magic and includes elements of the thriller, the Gothic and themes of Victorian literature.
Venepoetics 2009
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