The problem is that many of them recycle the same ideas about authoritarian governments and collapsing societies without ...

Reading Orwellian novels and watching Black Mirror used to be an entertaining form of escapism. But nowadays, these kinds of ...

20 years ago, Charlie Hunnam joined a stacked cast to bring dystopian fans one of the bleakest thrillers ever made, and it's ...

When novelists look to the future, the view is often grim. There are a lot more fictional dystopias than utopias. Ian McEwan has good news and bad news about what lies ahead in “ What We Can Know,” a ...

The saying goes that it takes two to tango, but What Happened to Monday suggests it takes seven to survive a dystopian future where siblings are outlawed. With Noomi Rapace taking on the lead role ...

Asif Kapadia's 2073 received little attention when it came out near the end of 2024. It’s not exactly holiday fare: this vision of a bleak dystopian future wracked by environmental cataclysms and ...

Dystopian movies have been made for decades now, but only a few, including Children of Men, Metropolis, and A Clockwork ...

Back in 1949, when George Orwell’s 1984 was published, the novel was deemed a depressing masterpiece and prophetic warning.

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Ian McEwan's new novel, "What We Can Know," is a literary mystery set in a dystopian future. The story follows a scholar in the year 2119 searching for a lost poem from the 21st century. The novel ...