How To Use Dystopian In A Sentence
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The best movie of the year, which no one saw, is Mike Judge's Idiocracy, a terrifying vision of a dystopian future in which language has deteriorated to a series of agrammatical corporate logos, the only mention of history is a vague assertion that "the dinosaurs were wiped out by the Nazis," and anyone who speaks in full sentences is derided as a "fag.
Frankie Thomas: On Becoming Adequite: or, Why Lindsay Lohan Wasn't Cast in The History Boys
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It's all packed into this two-hour dystopian space odyssey.
Times, Sunday Times
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That is why there is such a rich future for people of color in science fiction and fantasy, because the genre allows us to speculate on our future whether utopian or dystopian.
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In Lee's dystopian vision of the world of entertainment, television is all-powerful and all-corrupting.
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Try to forget those wretched sequels and endless inferior imitators, because this stylish dystopian sci-fi thriller still stands up as a dazzling pinnacle of highbrow pulp cinema.
Times, Sunday Times
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Emotional disconnect, man-machine sexual politics, dystopian futurism, German electronic-music fetishes - Bowie was post-millennial before we even hit 1980.
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This nostalgic embrace of primitiveness leads dystopians to interpret every technological advance as another step toward an ultimately dehumanized existence.
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I realized that he's right, it's easy to write (and think) in dystopian terms, and it's harder to be both optimistic and realistic -- or, inspiring, even -- about the future.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Gord Sellar
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I also seem to recall a hefty children's fantasy quartet in which families are assigned colors (browns, reds, yellows) according to a strict caste system, but I can't remember the name of the book, and I'm not sure if it would actually qualify as dystopian.
New Notes, Back to School edition
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Neither do I agree with the even more dystopian picture of entire nation states now under threat from the new terrorist activities.
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Incidentally, George Orwell (penname of Eric Arthur Blair, 1903-1950), author of the celebrated dystopian fantasy Nineteen Eighty-four (published in 1949), knew London's work and wrote of him (quite unevenly, depicting too short a time spent reading London's works) in a 1945 Introduction to the British edition of Love of Life and Other Stories.
“Malicious chance was having its laugh at him.”
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The novel conjures up a lawless dystopian world of youth violence and institutional mind-manipulation.
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Never Let Me Go, which I'd describe as dystopian were it not for the fact that it is set in a wholly recognisable
Evening Standard - Home
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In Burgess's 1962 dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange, famously filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1971, the unruly youngster Alex is subjected to "the Ludovico Technique" by the crazed authorities.
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The story revolves around Harrison Ford's policeman, Rick Deckard, and his hunt for four cloned humanoids, known as replicants, in a dystopian version of Los Angeles.
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The outcome is dystopian politics in which the motive that most influences politicians is getting re-elected.
The Times Literary Supplement
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What's off the mark about his dystopian predictions is that his narrator is saying these things, as opposed to merely thinking them.
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It is not surprising that the two greatest literary dystopians, Huxley and Orwell, were English.
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However, before we start running away with some Gibson-esque dystopian nightmare fantasy, it should also be noted that Schmidt was joking.
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There are two stories set in dystopian futures - one of them a hi-tech world of zombified clones, the other a post-apocalyptic stone age.
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This narrative arc to a sense of hopelessness in such classic dystopian works as Nineteen Eighty - Four.
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Dystopians, in contradistinction to utopians, believe that technology is more regressive than progressive, more a force for evil than good.
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For his dystopian vision of the future, George Orwell chose the year 1984.
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For some dystopians, new technology is a source of control.
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Set in a dystopian near-future, it's told in a series of letters between a loving, liberal grandmother, her resilient grand-daughter and the pinched, conformist mother who divides them.
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This dystopian novel takes us through an engineer's discovery of a free way to desalinate water in (seriously) water constrained future.
A. Siegel: Energy Bookshelf: Ten More Worth Your Time Than Super Freaky Crap
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AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages
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Both McLuhan's and Marcuse's dissection of modern technology is neither dystopian nor pessimistic.
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I'm not an Internet utopian, but I'm not an Internet dystopian either.
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It's not just the oil spill, it's the melting polar ice caps, it's the mysterious, scientifically inexplicable dead zones spreading through the oceans and the precipitously collapsing fish and invertebrate populations: seemingly discrete events all crescendoing together towards a terrifying dystopian climax.
Larry Abrams: Expropriating British Petroleum
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These 1960s science-fiction films were aimed at a critical adult audience and were categorized as dystopian and post-holocaust.
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But vitally, it as an unmistakably modern effort, possessed of a distinctive dystopian angst.
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Not when there is dystopian, nightmary stuff to peddle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Turkle turned dystopian with her new book, Alone Together, which decries machines' disrupting human relationships.
Digital Anthropologist
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British dystopian Watkins prophesizes in his film that protestors and lefties are arrested, tried, and surreptitiously executed in the desert.
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Tintin meets Carrie in a beautifully drawn dystopian mystery
X'ed Out by Charles Burns – review
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This volume seeks to explore the saturation of visual technologies in our everyday lives, widely seen by theorists as the path to cultural destruction and a dystopian future.
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Still, it strikes me as odd that conservatives seem so convinced that a set of countries whose populations are healthier and longer-lived, and where dramatically fewer children grow up in poverty, is somehow obviously a dystopian nightmare.
Matthew Yglesias » McConnell Warns of American Dystopia — More Equality, Less Poverty, Longer Life Expectancy
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Magneto is the kind of character that is more commonly found in dystopian SciFi novels and more artist graphic novel offerings like the Watchmen.
Rumor: Magneto Spin-Off Shooting Next Year? « FirstShowing.net
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There seems to be a trend these days with postapocalyptic dystopian novels.
Lisa Yee: Happy 95th Birthday, Beverly Cleary
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When the novel's fifth section gives you the interrogation of a rebellious clone, Sonmi~451, in some dystopian future, it is to draw the reader into an unlikely sympathy with the "fabricant", treated as non-human by the "purebloods" she serves.
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
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But the stark, dystopian science-fiction tale has become a cult oddity if not a classic.
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This dystopian novel takes us through an engineer's discovery of a free way to desalinate water in seriously water constrained future.
A. Siegel: Energy Bookshelf: Ten More Worth Your Time Than Super Freaky Crap
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I've got two ideas: one of which is a dystopian, which is a very hot genre right now.
Make It
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Yet, this technological naivety finally does not matter, for the dystopians' purpose is moral and political.
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I am not a dystopian who thinks that making some efforts to make tools for slaughtering large numbers of people inaccessible to maniacs will transform America into Amerika.
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Doing a PHD in social networking (and stints at Yahoo) would make Danah forecast 'social network fatigue', but her dystopian Desperate Housewives meets their always-on kids in the gootube bazaar is so funny it must be true - Class will be split into private mean girls cliques and interspersed with child star bonaduces, security guard gary coleman playing net nanny, and Marcia Cross tubd spankn vignettes.
"Forget dirty laundry, we're talking a full inversion of the house."
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The outcome of the book, while almost overwhelmingly dystopian, is also the most fascinating perspective on the nature of humanity in a very long time.
Are There Any SF/F Books You Could Not Finish?
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It's all packed into this two-hour dystopian space odyssey.
Times, Sunday Times
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For instance, George Orwell almost called his dystopian masterpiece
The Big Bad Book Blog
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Part of what's called the dystopian genre, "Hunger Games" is set in a bleak futuristic world where the government forces teens to fight one another to the death as their parents look on, airs the battle on television and calls it a national holiday.
Dr. Harold Koplewicz: Understanding Why Teens Love Disaster, Distress And Dystopian Lit
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Not all of his admirers were fully aware of the satirical or dystopian aspects of his work, however.
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Re: and where dramatically fewer children grow up in poverty, is somehow obviously a dystopian nightmare.
Matthew Yglesias » McConnell Warns of American Dystopia — More Equality, Less Poverty, Longer Life Expectancy
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Cui Jie's dystopian scene from 2011, "Bar," also evokes the painterly eeriness of German artists Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch.
China's Rising Art Stars
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In its dystopian vision, the first mega city around New York began construction in 2030, intended to house three to four million people.
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Either it's possible to write (and film) non-awful dystopian fiction, or "awful dystopian" is redundant.
Warning: political cooties
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Blackly funny and chillingly dystopian, Battle Royale has been having quite a resurgence recently.
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Young Sr wrote the 1945 Labour manifesto, virtually invented what is now called social entrepreneurship, set up the Consumers' Association, Which? magazine, the University of the Third Age and the National Extension College prototype for the Open University, and wrote The Rise of the Meritocracy, a dystopian satire about the consequences of continuing with the 11-plus.
Can Toby Young's free school succeed?
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In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 the title inverted the last two digits of 1948, the year when it was published, he imagined a world divided into three despotic superstates—Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia—permanently at war with one another.
The Great Experiment
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The only escape from the situation comedy of a dystopian society is into the audience, the position of absolute exteriority.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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A different kind of dystopian prediction comes in The Discovery.
Times, Sunday Times
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A chilling tale in the tradition of Fahrenheit 451 and Logan's Run - the sort of dystopian narrative where a protagonist policeman who previously hasn't questioned his society wakes up to the knowledge that he is doing very bad things - the novelet is screaming for a Hollywood option and subsequent screenplay adaptation.
Archive 2006-11-01
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Now seems an apt time to stage George Orwell's dystopian novel about the corruption of language.
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Like the novel, it portrays Gilead, a dystopian society not too far in the future.
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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin would also be a great addition to the dystopian "canon," and anyone who enjoyed 1984 should be familiar with it, as it acted as a precursor to Orwell's influential novel.
MIND MELD: The Perfect SF/F/H Books to Give to People Who Don't Read SF/F/H
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The dystopian political program of this utterly marginal, extremist sect has absolutely no traction with anyone of significance.
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Yevgeny Zamyatin -- whose early dystopian novels influenced Orwell, Le Guin, and Vonnegut -- once wrote that Children are the boldest philosophers.
MIND MELD: If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would it Be?
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A student whom I tutor is reading Fahrenheit 451, and reading it with him has made me wonder what the best dystopian literature for young adult and youth readers is.
New Notes, Back to School edition
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Despite my deep interest in dystopian societies, I only read 1984 this year, I have just started Brave New World and I have never read Lord of the Flies.
Confessions of a literary fraud « Write Anything
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This soulless remake of the 1975 Norman Jewison-directed dystopian sci-fi picture starring James Caan skipped all the social commentary and went straight for jazzed-up, hyperviolent roller-derby action.
Top 10 Pointless Remakes » Scene-Stealers
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But in Y2K's dystopian mode, nature is not a land of plenty and ease to which we might return and linger, but rather a howling wilderness, a return to bestiality and the Hobbesian war of all against all.