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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.
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.
The future is always a dystopia in movies.
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.
Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.