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dystopia

[dis-toh-pee-uh] / dɪsˈtoʊ pi ə /


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Dystopia has rarely looked as grim and felt as exhilarating as it has in George Miller’s “Mad Max” cycle.

From New York Times • May 15, 2024

This might sound like the kind of place nobody would ever want to be in, but every year millions of people pay to visit haunts just like Dystopia.

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2023

Dystopia seems to be our creative narrative for the future.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2023

In her brooding second novel, “Elsewhere,” Alexis Schaitkin delves into a subgenre that might be called Domestic Dystopia, well-mined by writers like Shirley Jackson and Margaret Atwood.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2022

“What’s it like? This thing you have. Dystopia or whatever.”

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt



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