“By the Waters of Babylon”, “Anthem”, “Brave New World”, “Nineteen Eighty-four”, “Fahrenheit 451” dystopian fictions were warnings to their time about how bad things could become.
Sometimes I think modern dystopian and apocalyptic fictions are reflections of how bad things are.
Sorry, that’s already fully descriptive of the ones we have now.
“By the Waters of Babylon”, “Anthem”, “Brave New World”, “Nineteen Eighty-four”, “Fahrenheit 451” dystopian fictions were warnings to their time about how bad things could become.
Sometimes I think modern dystopian and apocalyptic fictions are reflections of how bad things are.
Or maybe just I have grown old and grumpy.
That might make two of us.
The Mike Judge film “Idiocracy” has, as of late, been referred to less as “comically dystopian” and more as “depressingly prophetic”.
Having also seen that film, I wouldn’t argue against that.