Tue Feb 28, 2023 11:07 am
Examples of Famous Dystopian Fiction (or are they fiction, you decide):
1984: In George Orwell’s 1984, the world is under complete government control. The fictional dictator Big Brother enforces omnipresent surveillance over the people living in the three inter-continental superstates remaining after a world war.
Brave New World: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, written in 1932, explores the danger of technology. The ruling World State uses powerful conditioning technologies to control reproduction and citizens’ actions.
Fahrenheit 451: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, written in 1953, follows a fireman whose job is to burn books. Because of the censorship of books, this future society has increased interest in technology and entertainment—and an inability to think freely and creatively.
Lord of the Flies: Lord of the Flies by William Golding, written in 1954, is about a group of schoolboys abandoned on a tropical island after their plane gets shot down during a fictional atomic war. Conflicts emerge between the boys as they struggle to build a civilization and fight for survival.
The Hunger Games: The Hunger Games, a young adult trilogy by Suzanne Collins, takes place in the fictional world of Panem, a future nation on the ruins of North America. Panem’s totalitarian government, The Capitol, holds most of the country’s wealth and controls the citizens. Each year, children from Panem’s twelve districts are selected to participate in a televised death match called the Hunger Games.
The Maze Runner: This series by James Dashner chronicles the events of the destruction of the dystopian world by massive solar flares and coronal mass ejection. In the first book of the series, a group of teenage boys are stuck in an imaginary place called The Glade and have to find their way out of its ever-changing maze.
The Road: The Road by Cormac McCarthy, written in 2006, is a post-apocalyptic story about a father and son venturing across the ruins of America after an extinction event.
