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Tag: Global Dystopias

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, Junot Díaz

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

John Crowley

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

Peter Ross, Paul Kingsnorth

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

Junot Díaz

“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. 

Michael Braunschweig

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