of, pertaining to, or resembling a dystopia n. 2
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.
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.
These same parks, with their milling docile crowds directed by overseers, also demonstrate the sinister dystopic aspects that result from the urge to create such utopias.
This review of the film Men in Black argues that what used to be alarming in the science fiction genre has now become its main source of humour. As a reactionary response to the dystopic X-Files, MiB is an elaborate parody which seeks to recuperate ideological ground lost by the X-Files' examination of gender and technology in contemporary culture. "
This review of the film Men in Black argues that what used to be alarming in the science fiction genre has now become its main source of humour. As a reactionary response to the dystopic X-Files, MiB is an elaborate parody which seeks to recuperate ideological ground lost by the X-Files' examination of gender and technology in contemporary culture.
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.
antedating 1967
W.H.G. Armytage in Extrapolation
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