Sentences with phrase «dystopian novel about»

She is currently writing a YA dystopian novel about a spoiled princess.

Who: Elisabeth Moss, Samira Wiley and Joseph Fiennes What: A 10 - episode series based on Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel about a near - future world in which women serve as concubines for the leaders of a fundamentalist state When: Premieres April 26 Where: Hulu Why We're Excited: After a trailer for the series aired during the Super Bowl, the 1985 novel rocketed to the top of the Amazon bestseller list.

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Based on British author Anthony Burgess's novel about a dystopian future riddled with youth gangs, it introduces us to thirteen - year - old Alex (Malcolm McDowell in a breakthrough performance he has never been able to repeat) and his «Droogs».

Today is November 5, Guy Fawkes Day, and the obvious pop - cultural - savvy way to mark the occasion is to don the guise of the revolutionary title character from 2006's V For Vendetta, the film based on the David Lloyd / Alan Moore graphic novel about a dystopian future society where just about everything fun has been...

His novel was set in a dystopian future 2044 about a teenaged protagonist that simply wants to solve a 3 part quest in a virtual reality video game.

«Ready Player One,» which is based on the novel by author Ernest Cline, is a dystopian sci - fi tale about gamers competing for control of a virtual world.

The slate of 12 international titles vying for a $ 25,000 prize include «High - Rise,» a British adaptation of J.G. Ballard's dystopian novel, and «Land of Mine,» a Danish - German post-World War II thriller about a team of schoolboy POWs who are tasked with the removal of still - active buried land mines.

Most subversive about Ramin Bahrani's remarkable adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel (previously filmed, less successfully, more than half a century ago by the French filmmaker François Truffaut) is that its oppressed state isn't dystopian but in fact a utopia that questions whether it's oppressed at all.

The Unfortunate Expiration of Mr. David S. Sparks, my speculative sci - fi dystopian novel I've been talking about and working on for the last ten years is finally available.

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.

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands By Chris Bohjalian Vintage • $ 15.95 • ISBN 9780307743930 Something entirely different from the talented Bohjalian in his 16th novel: a dystopian tale about the aftermath of a nuclear meltdown.

To the extent that dystopian novels depict anxieties about the present rather than predictions for the future, it seems clear that contemporary writers are just as concerned about women's rights as Atwood was in 1985.

Now, with her second book, When She Woke, a dystopian novel set in America in a near - future in which the country has been taken in a very right - wing direction, about to hit the bookstores» shelves paired with its digital cousin, Jordan may be feeling that this progression has been very fast paced.

Yesterday, author Gabrielle Zevin told us about her dystopian teen novel, All These Things I've Done — which underwent a makeover between the hardcover and paperback editions.

The most compelling dystopian novels aren't really about a horrifying possible future; they're about the present, and the dangers we don't see because they're part of the cultural air we breathe.

But before you go and purchase one of these books, it's important to understand what dystopian novels are about.

A true dystopian novel is about the character's struggles living within a dystopian society.

Marion König, International Sales Manager E-Publishing, Bastei Lübbe, spoke about the company's «Apocalypsis» project — a series of dystopian novels which the German publisher translated on its own into English and sold in a staggered release starting last fall.

Then again, I suppose the same could be said about just about every dystopian novel out there, considering it's 110 years old.

Directed by Steven Spielberg and adapted from Ernest Cline's 2011 novel of the same name, «Ready Player One» cast two relative unknowns — Tye Sheridan and Olivia Cooke — in a tale about a treasure hunt in a dystopian virtual world.