Tag: Global Dystopias

“'I felt no hunger but the habit of food struck me intensely. My nightgown was grubby and torn. My limbs were scraped, spotted with yellow bruises, but I felt no pain.” Short Story

Years after an extinction event nearly wiped out humanity, a team of scientists search Venezuela for signs of life and evidence of what caused the tragedy. Short Story

In a lost tale of Casanova, the citizens of a country at the center of the Earth must give up their home—and their women—to colonizers. Short Story

An aging AI researcher, alone with her robot companion, must make a difficult decision when the android begins to malfunction. Short Story

In the aftermath of a flu pandemic that kills most of the population, a survivor, barricaded in Alaska, remembers her life while contemplating a grisly choice. Short Story

Once I learned of the existence of mothers, I decided to order one for myself.

Stories are dangerous. They can get you killed.

The monotony of slow cinema defamiliarizes our world and enables us to see it critically.

We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.

An interview with China Miéville.

A tale of forbidden love in an age when corporations have replaced government.

Life is for living, my dead mother said.

He will surprise her on the anniversary of the end.

“I wanted his body to begin and end elsewhere, at home, meaning his home, wherever that was, meaning even I, whose job was to include him, wanted him out.”

After the slave trade and colonization, history has become a dystopia.

Eventually, it became obvious that we didn’t have a mission. Or our mission, for what it’s worth, was the lack thereof.

“The intake process begins with dismantling her personal space, one mantle at a time.”

Nalo Hopkinson on the politics of dystopia, writing from the Global South, and the enduring importance of black mermaids.

He has been pressed into service of all sorts of causes, but the real Orwell remains unknown.

Junot Díaz introduces Global Dystopias.

So the thing about the Death Squads is that their outfits are super cute.

Every word is Trademarked™, Restricted® or Copyrighted©. Why was this something to celebrate?

Junot Díaz interviews Margaret Atwood about The Handmaid's Tale, political dystopias, and Drake.

A new generation of young Polish novelists has turned to dystopia to express Poland's cultural and economic contradictions.