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Tag: Global Dystopias

Theo Costantino
“'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
Mike McClelland
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
Maria Dahvana Headley
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
Sumudu Samarawickrama

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

Maureen F. McHugh
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
JR Fenn

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

Tananarive Due

Stories are dangerous. They can get you killed.

Mark Bould

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

Henry Farrell

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

China Miéville

An interview with China Miéville.

Jordy Rosenberg

“You used terms such as revolutionaries. Comrades. And, most illegally of all: lovers. Unmarried people who fuck each other without the goal of childrening. Well, I was sunk.” A tale of forbidden love in an age when corporations have replaced government.

Lindsay R. Taylor

Life is for living, my dead mother said.

Mike Jeffrey

He will surprise her on the anniversary of the end.

Kristen Gleason

“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.”

Tananarive Due
After the slave trade and colonization, history has become a dystopia.
Bryan Washington

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

Charlie Jane Anders

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

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

From invading Afghanistan to dismantling Confederate monuments, George Orwell has been pressed into the service of all sorts of causes. But the real Orwell remains unknown.

Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz introduces Global Dystopias.
Jason Baltazar

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

Gregory Scott Katsoulis

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

Junot Díaz, Margaret Atwood

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

Marta Figlerowicz

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

Samuel R. Delany, Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz interviews science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany about what it means to be an aging sex radical and why he wrote the essay “Ash Wednesday.”
Samuel R. Delany

“I’m known as a sex radical, but the fact is I felt there was a world of experience that had been slipping away.”

John Crowley

A new biography of Norman Bel Geddes, designer of the Futurama, tells the story of American innovation.

Peter Ross, Paul Kingsnorth

Celebrated dystopian novelist Paul Kingsnorth talks surviving the collapse of civilization as we know it.

Junot Díaz

Our critique of the present is essential to producing a future. 

Michael Braunschweig

“Only with difficulty did I adjust to my life here,” writes a lonely man in this surreal tale of a dystopian city and an ill-fated search for a friend. 

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