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Instead, they are being drawn to dystopian fiction by Suzanne Collins and Veronica Roth.

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By Oon Yeoh - November 5, 2017 A common theme in science fiction movies is a dystopian future where food is scarce.

James Dashner, the author of «The Maze Runner,» a top - selling dystopian science fiction series that was turned into a film trilogy, has been dropped by his publisher, Random House, due to his inclusion on a list of authors who allegedly engaged in harassment.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have branded comments by Brexit Secretary David Davis that the UK won't be «plunged into a Mad Max - style world borrowed from dystopian fiction» after Brexit absurd.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 is a 2014 American dystopian science fiction adventure film directed by Francis Lawrence with a screenplay by Peter Join the Revolution.

The plot, which is a parody of a dystopian science fiction story along the lines of Tron or The Matrix, focuses on an unexceptional mini-figure construction worker, Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt).

Niccol's tech - heavy view of the future strays far from the dystopian wasteland and ultra-flashy perspectives favored by science fiction films.

35 years after the original Blade Runner changed the landscape of big screen science fiction, Blade Runner 2049 (2017) dared build on the dystopian portrait of the ecologically devastated urban imaged on screen by director Ridley Scott and his team of designers and artists.

The new science fiction action film from Bong Joon - ho («The Host,» «Mother») defies the odds by turning yet another dystopian future into something thrilling and distinctive.

His appearance in the 2006 film, A Scanner Darkly, based on the dystopian science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, received favorable reviews, and The Lake House, his romantic outing with Sandra Bullock, did not do well at the box office.

A dystopian science - fiction film directed by Wes Ball and written by Noah Oppenheim and Grant Pierce Myers, it stars Dylan O'Brien and Kaya Scodelario, two relatively unknown young actors, in a 20th Century Fox production.

As a super fan of dystopian sci - fi and futurism in fiction in general, the new film, Automata, by Spanish director Gabe Ibanez has me particularly...

This YA debut by Bacigalupi, a rising star in adult science fiction, presents a dystopian future like so many YA sf novels.

Fiction Affliction: Genre - Benders for December by Suzanne Johnson (Steampunk, dystopian novels etc..)

Right now the political climate in the US has resulted in a keen interest in dystopian fiction — we can ride that wave by putting together a list of these titles and featuring them.

Part techno thriller, part literary science fiction, Life is a Beautiful Thing is a series that questions what it means to be human, a book that offers a shocking glimpse into a dystopian future fueled by corporate deceit, bawdy sex and high - end intoxicants.

Title: One God — The Will To Power Author: Kata Mlek Genre: Dystopian, Technothriller, Science Fiction Rating: 4 stars Purchase: Amazon Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.

23 Science Books That Are So Exciting They Read Like Genre Fiction by Annalee Newitz (great material for all writers with a dystopian bend)

Title: Regina Shen: Vigilance Author: Lance Elrick Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction / Dystopian Age Group: Young Adult Rating: 4 stars Purchase: Amazon Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.

Influenced by the speculative intersections between language, science fiction, culture and technology, Jess Johnson's practice encompass drawing and installation that conjures up dystopian spaces that combine densely layered patterns, objects and figures within architectural settings.

Inspired by dystopian fiction as well as mid-century illustrations and comics, Andrew Fairclough's artworks explore different themes of introspection, duality, impulse and mind control as well as the never - ending flow of information.

Often inspired by dystopian and science fiction films, I combine recognizable architectural forms and impossible buildings to make diorama-esque works.

Haunted by the recurring ghost of musician Sun Ra, the show explores the utopian, dystopian esthetic of Afrofuturism, the genre where science fiction, fantasy, magical realism and pan-Africanism converge.

Inspired by dystopian science fiction films, O'Sullivan builds environments composed of peculiar buildings and subterranean lairs.

The Iron (y) Helmet of the Intellect», displays a dystopian landscape produced by asymmetric relation of delirious realism and rigorous fiction in the time of global capital, with a certain sense of alienation, coldness and distance.

The gallery also showed work by Phillip Birch, the highlight being his dystopian video sculpture, Interventionist Agent # 2 (Constantine)(2016), which sold to a Belgian private collection for $ 8,500 and takes cues from the science fiction subgenre body horror (think: David Cronenberg).

The Contemporary Art Gallery presents Medium - Based Time by Berlin - based Canadian artist Jeremy Shaw, featuring a black and white 16 mm film of transgender voguer Leiomy Maldonado, an HD video installation that reworks archival ethnographic film into a dystopian science fiction narrative,

Asking old questions about the joint fictions of reality and the photographic medium in ways that take us beyond the documentary and the poetical, No Greater Fiction pictures the often dystopian experiences, shifting scales and topographies of the real by reminding us that being aware of make - believes does not obliterate our need to have them.

Among the powerful narratives it channels are George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, Philip K. Dick's alternative - reality fiction The Man in the High Castle (as well as the current award - winning Amazon TV series based on the book) and the «fake news» discussed daily by our current POTUS.

But good dystopian fiction isn't constrained by the most probable outcomes — it exaggerates a known phenomenon to prove a point.