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So here's a sampling of YA lit —
including dystopian science fiction, magical realism and contemporary realistic fiction — that explores questions about teens, bodies and decision making.
Not exact matches
The list
includes streaming shows like Netflix's upcoming
dystopian series, «The Rain,» and the Benedict Cumberbatch - led, miniseries drama, «Patrick Melrose,» from Showtime.
A selection of commissioned and contemporary works,
including one from Black Mirror, serve up more critical,
dystopian fare.
The fantastic A New Tomorrow: Visions of the Future in Cinema program currently screening at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art
includes two
dystopian features that delve beyond the humour to explore the reality of the dichotomy of both unwanted and desperately needed offspring, courtesy of Andrew Niccol's 1997 effort Gattaca and Alfonso 2006 offering Children Of Men.
Ben Wheatley, who has just completed his
dystopian High - Rise starring Tom Hiddleston and Sienna Miller, is fast becoming one of the UK's favourite filmmakers after the excellent three that
includes Sightseers, Kill List and A Field In England.
The movie has great time era sets pieces as the film takes the audience from a
dystopian future to a realistic version of 1973 that
includes wardrobe, hairstyles, and music.
Their highly idiosyncratic output
includes the 2012 bloody black comedy «Sightseers» and last year's «High - Rise,» based on a
dystopian novel by J.G. Ballard.
That approach
includes focusing the spotlight on Evans» character (who leads a rebellion aboard a futuristic train that houses much of humanity in the film's wintery
dystopian setting), in order to better utilize his star power as a selling point - in addition to emphasizing the movie's action beats, as accompanied by the expected dramatic musical cues in the post-Inception age of trailers.
The Globe nominations were kind to other films coming out later this year: Both «The Wolf of Wall Street,» the account of a win - at - all - costs stockbroker premiering on Christmas, and «Her,» a
dystopian tale of severed interpersonal relationships opening Dec. 18, received multiple nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.,
including selections alongside «American Hustle» for best comedy or musical motion picture.
«Snowpiercer» Bong Joon - ho's
dystopian thriller wouldn't be half as resonant without its cast of international stars,
including Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris, Song Kang - ho, and Vlad Ivanov.
Other
dystopian tales featuring mankind settling elsewhere in the universe because Earth has been destroyed
include After Earth, Oblivion and WALL - E.
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.
Fiction books can benefit from subtitles too: recently I helped an author change a 1 word title, which nobody was finding, or if they did find, didn't know what it was about, to
include the subtitle «A
Dystopian Adventure.»
This was one of the most surprising books of the year, though Erdrich's first foray into
dystopian fiction
included many of the hallmarks that her fans expect: a social and political conscience, and characters of tremendous depth.
Meyer cleverly
includes enough elements of the original Cinderella story to keep fans of fairy tales happy, but she simultaneously makes the story entirely her own, constructing a futuristic,
dystopian world that is complex enough to stand on its own.
Today, to coincide with the global release of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam, Wattpad and Doubleday have teamed up to share an exclusive essay from Atwood revealing insights into the development of the critically - acclaimed
dystopian trilogy, which also
includes Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.
Genres I've edited and published
include literary fiction, short stories, mystery, science fiction, paranormal, thrillers,
dystopian fiction, and young adult.
Jennifer writes science fiction, romance and
dystopian fiction for children and adults,
including Apocalypse Weird: Reversal in Wonderment Media's Apocalypse Weird world and A Pair of Docks, which was a bestseller in children's time travel fiction.
She prefers books set wholly or partially in this world,
including contemporary romances, mysteries, and thrillers, as well as
dystopians, light sci - fi, and urban fantasies.
A recent browse in JukePop led me to works in a wide range of genres,
including adventure,
dystopian, and paranormal — content runs eclectic, but appears to be family friendly.
This
dystopian novel is
included in many other lists, naming only Top 100 Kindle bestsellers of 2017.
The featured authors represent a diverse cross-section of genres and categories,
including fantasy, biography, mystery, thriller, historical fiction, contemporary romance, paranormal romance, YA romance, and
dystopian SciFi.
There is new DLC (
included with preorders and at a cost of $ 4.99 now) that will allows the game to be played as Duke Nukem, a Gearbox owned character, who does fit perfectly in the
dystopian future setting, with his original voice actor spouting off - color jokes.
Featuring possibly the strangest
dystopian - future setting in fiction, it's painted in heavy metal references, with a cast of brawlers that
includes a witch prone to guitar solos and a time - travelling Axl Rose lookalike.
You need to survive 30 seconds in a cramped arena in order to grow old in this spin - off of 70s - inspired
dystopian science fiction,
including Logan's Run (1976) and THX 1138 (1971).
One ends up 200 years in the part, one remains in the present and the last end up in a
dystopian future where the tentacle succeeded in his evil scheme; and no, that last section doesn't
include as much Japanese tentacle porn as you expect.
See their dreamy -
dystopian series about our collective impact on the world,
including «Intermission» (2015) above.
Photo: Thierry Bal OMER FAST — 3 film installation — prize winning african artist South London Gallery «Nostalgia» is a new three - part film installation by Omer Fast
including one film depicting a migrant from a
dystopian Britain seeking asylum in Africa.
This new film work mixes media and involves collaboration using humour and bathos to explore issues and subjects
including, our insignificance in the universe (The Starry Messenger, 2013) a hoarding
dystopian future (ECHT, 2014) and buildings with odd angles (Hotel 70º, 2015).
The exhibition
includes Chinese Pop propaganda banner paintings and posters, each promoting Polluta, a futuristic
dystopian community in
The exhibition
included Nostalgia, a three - part film installation that intermingles a man's account of his struggle for asylum in Britain with a reenactment of his story as a 1970s science fiction movie in which he attempts to flee a
dystopian Europe and relocate to a colony in Africa.
These will
include Untitled (Book Corridors) 1997 - 8 and Untitled (Room 101) 2003 — a cast of the room at the BBC's Broadcasting House thought to be the model for Room 101 in George Orwell's
dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty Four.
TH.2058, by the French artist Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster,
includes bunk beds, replica artworks, dripping rain and a film of
dystopian worlds.
There are painted gags about Jasper Johns,
dystopian jokes about technology,
including a rattling old Xerox machine with half its gubbins missing, and an army of figures made from old floor lamps, neon tubes, discarded bits of plumbing.
The massive showcase will premiere 36 new paintings
including watercolor paintings, 40 framed original sketches, dozens of illustrations, puppets, a stop - motion animated film and a new mural on the gallery's wall based on her long - awaited illustrated book «The Cabinet of Dr. Deekay,» a
dystopian horror fairytale that will be published this summer in conjunction with the exhibit.