dystopic adj.

Amis then quotes Bradbury (from ‘Fahrenheit 451’) on ear-plug radios, now a reality—the same ref he had made in ‘New Maps of Hell’—and makes other references to stf, mostly dystopic ones.

More consistently dystopic, since he was both anti-Wells and anti-Marx, George Orwell kept up a rapid fire of criticism not at the shape of things to come, but at the way they were going.

It is in touches like these—parodies and extensions of the new brutalities, the mental and psychic curtailments of liberty practised on the aged, the socially inferior, the helpless—which reveal that a change of emphasis has not simply accompanies but motivated Story’s shift to this kind of dystopic subject matter.

The story of a society dominated by a rapacious ‘Big Brother’ who controls everybody’s movements by means of omni-present cameras, and keeps them timid with specially manufactured gas as he collects his oppressive taxes. A different SF coding was laid over these by director Pennant Roberts, who recast the dystopic themes visually and dramatically.

The story is…played out in the standing sets of dystopic-cityscape…, but with music and music videos added to the usual computerstuff.

Only HW would have written…an alternate history (featuring 4 alternate worlds) with time travel from a dystopic future, Amerindian Mound Builders, Aztec Invaders, ancient Greek merchants in power-driven boats and much more.

Whatever its literary merit, each dystopia, like Tolstoi’s unhappy families, is dystopic in its own way, charting its own unique path to a particular catastrophe.

OK, these movies Michael is making me watch? They are so depressing! Dystopic science fiction just isn’t my thing. I mean, even the WORD dystopic bums me out. Because dystopia is the OPPOSITE of utopia, which means an idyllic or totally peaceful society.

DETROPIA’s dystopic present anticipates tomorrow’s urban crises, while illuminating black change agents and environmentalists who envision a new city beyond existing racial paradigms.