On 8 June, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four will celebrate its 71st anniversary – but there’s no denying that the iconic dystopian novel feels all the more relevant in 2020 than ever before.
‘Station Eleven’ by Emily St. John Mandel This dystopian sci-fi novel is about a roaming troupe of actors traversing the Great Lakes region, performing Shakespeare and music for the scattered ...
From an unsettling look at the pressures of 21st-century parenthood to a commentary on the world of work set against the backdrop of a global pandemic, these modern dystopian novels are guaranteed ...
QUESTION: Who coined the term dystopian? What is considered the earliest dystopian novel? English philosopher John Stuart Mill coined the term in 1868, using it in a House of Commons debate on ...
The publicity for Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen pitches it as a clever blend of various dystopian series that have gone before. But that's doing the novel a disservice, as there are bouts of ...
Since Tuesday night, dystopian novels such as Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” to George Orwell’s seminal “1984” have returned to the charts. Other returning bestsellers ...