dystopia
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California’s Red Skies Aren’t Just a Glimpse of Our Future — They’re Our Past Mistakes Come to Life
Apocalypse has arrived on the western landscape. The Bay Area is shrouded in a layer of smoke so thick, it broke everything from camera sensors to weather models.
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One of the Most Timely Novels of the Year Is About Black Women in the 1880s Hunting Zombies
The world can be utterly bleak nowadays. A government that seems to actively hate health and science, an economy ruled by a handful of lying billionaires, and continued state-sanctioned violence against Black people have ushered in a modern dystopia. But as I finished Deathless Divide, Justina Ireland’s stellar follow up to her 2018 novel, Dread…
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A Young Warrior Battles a Ghastly Enemy in This Exclusive Preview of Marie Lu’s Skyhunter
dystopian YA series arriving this fall, inspired in part by her own experiences as an immigrant in the United States. The first book, Skyhunter, introduces us to mute heroine Talin Kanam. Read on for exclusive first look at the prologue and first chapter!
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Charlie Brooker Basically Just Told Us We’re All Too Depressed For Black Mirror
In a recent interview, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker expressed an undeniable fact: Now is truly not the time for Black Mirror’s dystopian shenanigans. Keep it. Put a little fence around it. The people don’t want it.