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Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

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 dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.

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

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.

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

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.