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dystopian novels

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I Wrote a Road Trip through the Apocalypse, Then We Drove It

  • Alison Stine
  • September 9, 2020
I won’t say I brought this on myself, but I wrote it. I wrote it myself.
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The Luxury of Choice: Talking with Joanne Ramos

  • Sara Lippmann
  • May 15, 2019
Joanne Ramos discusses her debut novel, THE FARM.
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A Dark and Stormy Dystopia

  • Jake Slovis
  • November 18, 2015
For the New Yorker, Kathryn Schulz analyzes “meteorological activity in fiction,” and how recent questions about climate change has led to a reemergence of weather related fiction, particularly in dystopian works: Our…
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The Last Book I Loved: Station Eleven

  • Michelle Vider
  • October 6, 2015
In the distance between me and the story, I can see all the ways I would have to change without technology, because of all the ways technology has already changed me.
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Language: “A Barometer of Society’s Health”

  • Jake Slovis
  • July 14, 2015
For the BBC, Hephzibah Anderson explores the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin, two authors who invented languages to color their fictional worlds. In addition, the article considers how…
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The Dystopian Present

  • Jake Slovis
  • April 21, 2015
For the Guardian, Megan Quibell argues that climate change has changed dystopian fiction, as many recent dystopian works rely on a “catalyst” that stems from “the destruction of the environment.” The…
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg

  • Amy Feltman
  • February 23, 2015
Author Laura van den Berg talks to the Rumpus about why she thinks America is obsessed with dystopias, the intersection of surrealism and realism in her work, and choosing an ambiguous ending for her new novel, Find Me.
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Back to the Present

  • Roxie Pell
  • November 4, 2014
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? By the time we’ve figured it out, we’ve already gotten there. Examining a trend toward futuristic fiction, Bill…
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Are YA Dystopian Novels Breeding Conservatives?

  • Ian MacAllen
  • September 3, 2014
The Harry Potter series might have been helping make young kids more open and accepting of diversity, but a new crop of young adult novels might be push kids in…
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