What is "dystopian"

Usage examples of "dystopian".

Even in the darkest dystopian science fiction stories, there is hope for the future.

Milton description of his dystopian Hell in the first two books of Paradise Lost is far more interesting than his description of utopian Hell in the third book.

And in The Lord of the Rings, not much can be told about the stay of the Fellowship in the utopian elfland of Lorien, but how the story intensifies and grows more interesting as we approach the dystopian Morder.

And yet pure dystopian tales are as dull and as unbearable as pure utopian ones.

The pure dystopian tale can only hit the single note of it awful--awful--awful.

Well, then, what is a science fiction writer supposed to do if both utopian and dystopian stories are dull?

Chandler was already writing dystopian fiction and I just created a cartoon version where all the subtlety has leeched out of it.

Space Station Freedom in the late 1990s portends a fresh burgeoning of an idea that in science fiction has become a staple used for both utopian and dystopian visions.

Nearly People, a Dystopian novel by Conrad Williams with an introduction by Michael Marshall Smith and a cover by Wieslaw Walkuski.

However, Wells presented a dystopian vision of the future as a warning of what could happen if the rigid social and economic divisions of his own society worsened to the extreme.

A powerful tale about the power of love and the will to survive in a dystopian universe that combines Victorian elements with a fantasy version of cyberpunk.

They were not born into the dystopian future of the sky towers and acid rains that our Will had been born to.

Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton and was set in another dystopian near-future where everyone needed permission to travel.

I would love to see an editorial or discussion of the value of these dystopian stories.

Utopians and dystopians all attempted to display their superior system on worlds where corrupting competition did not exist.