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- noun Plural form of
dystopia .
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Despite the commercial graduation of teams and the interest of two million monthly visitors to Mod DB, the scene's largest online portal, old stereotypes remain: untextured gun models in the backs of magazines; 'total conversions' that convert, totally, the knitwear on a terrorist's head; cyberpunk 'dystopias' that, by some kind of mirror-shade-overflow error, crash your computer.
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And after Take That opened the evening with a floor show that seemed to be a critique of totalitarian dystopias, but may just have been an opportunity to wear matching double-breasted car coats, the room for ridicule was as spacious as the venue.
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And for the ones who try to fight the excess of dystopias in modern Anglophone SF, the compelled optimism in a SF written under oppression could be a new standard of healthy limits in creating a positive and convincing SF.
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Ursula K Le Guin: The Earthsea series (1968-1990) "Best dystopias":
[UPDATED] Guardian's Science Fiction & Fantasy Novels Everyone Must Read: The Meme 2009
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If they're not space, they're dystopias or there's-a-terrible-secret utopias.
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I wonder if that's one of the indicators of futuristic dystopias in science fiction - no trees, people unhappy, no kids playing in treehouses and tire swings.
Crotch rocket! frankwu 2009
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We can imagine good futures and bad futures: utopias and dystopias.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Gareth L. Powell & Aliette de Bodard 2010
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Sure, there are the statist dystopias, but what factors cause there to be more dorks that enjoy seeing lava wipe out the West Coast than like theorizing about bad public policy?
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The films you cite as good examples of SF, District 9 and Inglourious Basterds (and Moon), are all in effect dystopias, hence offering dark and uncertain worlds.
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CT: In previous interviews, some of the writers you mentioned that heavily influence you include Ursula K. le Guin, Ray Bradbury, and Mervyne Peak and they tend to write with a dark atmosphere or have written dystopias.
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