Reflective of the mood of the times, dystopian fiction assumed the leading role in the utopian genre. Writers began to question both classical utopianism and the even more positively optimistic ...

Ralph Pordzik. The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia: A Comparative Introduction to the Utopian Novel in New English Literatures. New York: Lang, 2001. 199 pp. $53.95 hc. Until recently, utopian ...

Jonathan Swift’s provocative and controversial novel is infused with elements of science fiction. During his voyages the title character, Lemuel Gulliver, encounters utopian and dystopian ...

For his part, William Gibson believes that to divide science fiction into dystopian and utopian camps is to create a “pointless dichotomy.” Although his seminal 1984 cyberpunk novel ...

The 1949 work of dystopian fiction has been adapted into a radio ... lives in a futuristic society and learns the truth of ...

Annalee Newitz: Instead of dividing our dreams up into “utopia” and “dystopia,” I’m interested in thinking about “topias,” or futures that have elements of hope and struggle. I think the best fiction ...

A Tale of Two Futures: Utopian Potential vs. Dystopian Risks With Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire to empower humanity, as its guiding metaphor, Adopting AI asks: Is AI humanity’s greatest ...

In his thrilling eighth novel, Ewan Morrison takes us to the heart of the digital nightmare from which we are trying to awake ...

It’s strong, resonant fiction vividly set in a dying world, a literary dystopia written on a utopian palimpsest. Leave the Girls BehindJacqueline BublitzAllen & Unwin, $34.99 When Ruth is ...