Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen. Votes: 1
For its speculations to be taken seriously, dystopian fiction must be part of a discussion of contemporary society, a projection of ongoing political failures perhaps, or the wringing of present jeopardy for future disaster. Votes: 1
Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 4 Lauren Oliver
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Votes: 10 Frederick Douglass