This year was, to put it as gently as possible, the devil's playground. Oh sure, every year has its horrors and there are far worse annums behind us (the Crusades, anyone?), but 2014 proved to be a ...

Five years ago, we didn't know who or what a Katniss was. These days, ask anyone about The Hunger Games or Divergent (in theaters March 21) and "dystopia" is bound to come up. So, what's that word all ...

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 ...

If the world feels terrible right now, one can take small comfort in the cultural history of dystopia being a long one. From George Orwell’s 1984 to cinema franchises like Mad Max, fiction has ...

At the annual BookExpo America conference in 2010, William Gibson gave a prescient address about the future of the future — or, rather, about the fact that the capital-F Future, the one he’d grown up ...

Longtime White House correspondent Brian Karem writes a weekly column for Salon. The next world war has begun. Or perhaps, if you’re a philosopher, you’ll say our ongoing existential conflict ...

NEW YORK, May 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A diverse mix of television icons, musicians, and comedians will come together live and unscripted for the 5th Annual Dystopia Tonight with John Poveromo, a ...

We really have to stop defining “dystopia” down. Consider, for instance, the use of the word to describe the setting of “Logan.” “The Dark, Dystopian ‘Logan’ Is Epic in Its Brutality,” the headline of ...

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 ...

While one might not think of masala cinema and filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee in the same sentence, his film, Tees, is a unique masala film. Switching through different timelines, the film jumps back and ...