This year was, to put it as gently as possible, the devil's playground. Oh sure, every year has its horrors and there are far worse annums behind us (the Crusades, anyone?), but 2014 proved to be a ...

Five years ago, we didn't know who or what a Katniss was. These days, ask anyone about The Hunger Games or Divergent (in theaters March 21) and "dystopia" is bound to come up. So, what's that word all ...

If the world feels terrible right now, one can take small comfort in the cultural history of dystopia being a long one. From George Orwell’s 1984 to cinema franchises like Mad Max, fiction has ...

At the annual BookExpo America conference in 2010, William Gibson gave a prescient address about the future of the future — or, rather, about the fact that the capital-F Future, the one he’d grown up ...

NEW YORK, May 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A diverse mix of television icons, musicians, and comedians will come together live and unscripted for the 5th Annual Dystopia Tonight with John Poveromo, a ...

In my speculative fiction course this fall, my students identified a place and time we referred to as Dystopia TM, a sort of abstracted postapocalyptic landscape that has become as familiar a backdrop ...

We really have to stop defining “dystopia” down. Consider, for instance, the use of the word to describe the setting of “Logan.” “The Dark, Dystopian ‘Logan’ Is Epic in Its Brutality,” the headline of ...

Longtime White House correspondent Brian Karem writes a weekly column for Salon. The next world war has begun. Or perhaps, if you’re a philosopher, you’ll say our ongoing existential conflict ...

Details for Megadeth's highly anticipated 15th studio album have finally been revealed! Dystopia is scheduled for a Jan. 22, 2016 release date and the album art and full track listing are now ...