For decades, writers have conjured nightmare worlds to terrify generations of readers. While the dystopian genre may have had a huge peak in the early 2010s, with dozens of additions to the ...

Hailed by the New York Times as “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction,” Margaret Atwood crafted a novel that feels ...

Dystopia largely impacts people who are Black or Brown ... “I thought I was so cute in high school”—about a vampire who was turned in ancient Egypt. The vampire wakes at dusk “and she’s like, ‘I’m ...

That’s why you rarely see TV shows set in a utopian world, but you often see shows in a dystopian world. Often, these are very serious dramas, but there can be comedies set in dystopias.

Novels tend to portray dystopia as a messy, noisy business. Climate change brings devastating fires and floods; political extremism breeds abuse and bloodshed; viruses fill graveyards following ...