Sentences with phrase «dystopian stories about»

Dystopian stories about how Earth's environment will be unlivable in the future are plentiful.

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And certainly, as far as stories about a dystopian future go, it can't get much bleaker than director Ridley Scott's imagining of Los Angeles in the (then) far future of 2019.

For those unfamiliar with the comic, the overall plot of the story essentially centers on the characters in the past being warned about and — trying to avoid — a very unappealing dystopian future.

The classic dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell's story about a futuristic totalitarian state, has been in the midst of a spontaneous sales explosion, catapulting to the top of bestseller lists at Amazon, the New York Times and independent retailers.

As can happen with dystopian narratives, Future St. felt weirdly prescient, especially since Segade began to develop his story about a version of despotic gay nationalism (or regionalism, in this case) before the alt - right rose to its current prominence and Milo Yiannopolous became a sensation.

Existing global narratives about the future tend to be either dystopian visions of collapse and hardship, poorly articulated pathways to utopian fantasies, or stories that overestimate the power of conventional strategies to create real change.