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dystopia

noun as in dismal imaginary place

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In Dave Eggers’ The Every, a follow-up to his 2013 novel The Circle, the tech dystopia that characters navigate bears a strong resemblance to our current reality, dialed up a notch or two.

From Quartz

It is still a journey into the future for me, but not a good future, more a dystopia.

From Time

Before long, however, it descends into dystopia and civil war.

From Ozy

His later series Battlestar Galactica was famed for its grim plot twists and serious tone, but Moore would rather you not call that series a dystopia.

From Vox

Compared to other pandemic-inspired dystopias, the rise of the avatar sports fan wasn’t horrible, so much as mildly depressing.

Divergent is set in a dystopia and provides a pretty bleak portrait of our future.

Five years into the Obama presidency, we are further from the Great Recession but also closer to a new normal—economic dystopia.

Or we hear on MSNBC that the Republicans are ideologically blind and fanatical in their pursuit of a Darwinian dystopia.

Lurking not far beneath the prettiness lies the real Pagford—a dystopia that would take a wizard to set right.

In Tampa, the equivalent trip took you through an Eraserhead dystopia of underpasses and asphalt plains.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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