Sentences with phrase «great dystopian novels»

In 1985 Neil Postman published a book, «Amusing Ourselves to Death, «in which he argued that of the two great dystopian novels from the first half of the 20th century — Aldous Huxley's «Brave New World» and George Orwell's «1984» — it was actually the former, whose weapon of governmental control was distraction, rather than the latter, whose weapon was dictatorship, that was the more prescient and more deadly.

Not exact matches

The heir to the «next great franchise» throne is Suzanne Collins» «The Hunger Games», a trilogy of young adult novels set in a dystopian future where children are annually selected to fight to the death during the titular contest.

The vision of a dystopian future that has had the greatest influence over publishing in recent times came not from a novel created for young adult readers, however; it is in fact the fate suffered by the music industry in its attempts to deal with to digital disruption.