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10 Apr 09

BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - Brave New World

Brave New World is a lurid, satirical dystopia in which the hopes and fears of the 1930s are writ large and yet the book seems uncannily prescient about our own time. But why did Huxley feel the need to write it and is Brave New World really as dystopian as we are led to believe?

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06 Oct 08

Amazon.com: World Made by Hand: A Novel: James Howard Kunstler: Books

With World Made By Hand Kunstler makes an imaginative leap into the future, a few decades hence, and shows us what life may be like after these coming catastrophes—the end of oil, climate change, global pandemics, and resource wars—converge. For the towns

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10 Aug 08

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / The Dystopic Earths of Heinlein's Juveniles

Heinlein isn’t usually noted for his dystopias. Indeed, his juveniles are usually considered upbeat cheery fare, suitable for twelve-year-olds of all ages.

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21 Jul 08

The Red Pill: 10 Films Guaranteed To Blow Your Mind

The following 10 films are chosen because they shed light on the forces at work within our lives, this very moment. They use satire and metaphor to approach the truths that would otherwise be too difficult to understand, or too terrifying to comprehend.

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29 Sep 07

Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time

We thought it would be interesting if we... rank them not to preference, but to an average score made up of both Rotten Tomatoes (RT) and IMDB ratings.

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12 Sep 07

CRACKED.com - The 8 Most Common Sci-Fi Visions of the Future (And Why They'll Never Happen)

The future promises to be so wonderous and terrifying that it will exceed even the furthest reaches of the human imagination. Though this is not saying much, as the human imagination has really only been able to think up eight possible futures:

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13 Feb 07

Imagine Earth without people - life - 12 October 2006 - New Scientist

All things considered, it will only take a few tens of thousands of years at most before almost every trace of our present dominance has vanished completely. Alien visitors coming to Earth 100,000 years hence will find no obvious signs that an advanced ci

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20 Jan 07

Reel Pop: Apocalypse How? Reel Pop's Guide to the Top Ten Dystopia Films

Below, in top ten order -- but not including Children of Men (we practice a year's moratorium on adding anything to a movie top ten list) -- are Reel Pop's favorite dystopian films.

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