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I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.

Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.

'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.

Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. So much media's coming at you over the Internet, your brain gets overloaded. You don't know what to do with it. And one thing you can do with it is read a story.