The New Scientist Book Club's February read is Tim Winton's novel Juice, set in a future Australia that is so hot it is almost unliveable. Here, the author lays out his reasons for writing it – and wh ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And with COVID-19, dystopias featuring diseases have taken on new life. Netflix reports a spike in popularity for “Outbreak,” “12 ...

Reading Orwellian novels and watching Black Mirror used to be an entertaining form of escapism. But nowadays, these kinds of ...

In my speculative fiction course this fall, my students identified a place and time we referred to as Dystopia TM, a sort of abstracted postapocalyptic landscape that has become as familiar a backdrop ...

It's hard to deny that we're living at the height of the digital age and human innovation. On the surface, everything can seem shiny, new, and exciting. But you're not alone if you sense something off ...

“Dystopian” TV may seem ubiquitous, but not all dystopias look the same. We asked the creatives behind several series — totalitarian, postapocalyptic or both — to explain how they bring the term to ...

In the final months of 2021, as the omicron variant of COVID began to take off in the U.S., I compiled a list of the best dystopian novels of all time for Parade Magazine. I consulted with experts in ...

Dystopia is a punchline. Those of us who inhabit the Very Online Right like to point out how this or that new social phenomenon resembles this or that dystopian fiction. Daily, hitherto sane ...

The excellent new action film Hotel Artemis depicts a near-future Los Angeles of 2028 torn apart by riots over the privatization of clean water. Despite advanced technology, poverty is rampant and ...