Sentences with phrase «of dystopian books»

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The book is beating out New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance,» which comes in at No. 2, as well as two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's horror classic, «It: A Novel.»

The third book focuses on Jane and Mark Studdock, an academic couple who end up falling on opposite sides of a conflict involving the dystopian events surrounding Bracton College, a sinister corporation, and a mysterious figure dug up from the bottom of a well.

Fahrenheit 451 remains in the public consciousness for its searing critique of censorship (451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper burns — in Bradbury's dystopian view of the future, that temperature is used to burn books) and control over learning and intellectual pursuit.

In each of these novels — by Huxley, Orwell, and Bradbury — books become an enemy because they represent a written record of the past to a dystopian future where the past is something to forget.

British writer Philip Pullman, creator of the His Dark Materials trilogy of children's books set in a dystopian alternative reality, described Trump as a «savage».

Many people could construe the tagline of Malcolm Gay's recent book, «The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High - Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines,» as a vision of dystopian cyborgs lording over the general public.

But the truth is, the book I am reading at the time of his question probably is a dystopian novel.

What's more, the second book in the running, as selected by a further third of participants, is George Orwell's dystopian political commentary 1984.

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After Danny Boyle filmed an adaptation of the book (released in 2000), Garland transitioned into screenwriting, with a proclivity for dystopian science fiction.

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.

For those unfamiliar with X-Men comic book lore, «Days of Future Past» is an arc where the characters live in the dystopian future of 2013 (the horror!)

I first became aware of the Hunger Games series through a terrific article in the New Yorker by Laura Miller about the vogue for dystopian YA books.

2013 has definitely been a year of big comic book movies so far, with Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel both performing laudably at the box office, but one comic book adaptation that seems to have flown under the radar is acclaimed South Korean director Bong Joon - ho's (The Host, Mother) dystopian sci - fi drama Snowpiercer.

This second instalment — in what will be four films from the phenomenally popular Suzanne Collins book trilogy — finds Katniss, haunted by the ordeal of her inspirational victory in the 74th Hunger Games, back in dystopian, post-Apocalyptic Panem's miserable mining community District 12 with her mother, sister and stoic sweetheart Gale (Liam Hemsworth).

The first book, memorably adapted last year into a star - making vehicle for Jennifer Lawrence, focuses on the Hunger Games themselves, an event in a dystopian future America in which two children from each of the 12 districts are put into an arena and forced to fight to the death.

Though the more futuristic stuff isn't too distracting considering Hollywood's current obsession with dystopian sci - fi films like «The Hunger Games,» the decision to cast a 24 - year - old actor in the lead role (playing a 16 - year - old instead of the 12 - year - old that appears in the book) feels wrong for a number of reasons.

Metropolis, heavily influenced by the books of H.G. Wells, also stands as the first dystopian film in history.

Season 2 of «The Handmaid's Tale» may be moving past the narrative of the book on which it is based, but that won't prevent it from delving deeper into its dystopian setting.

HBO is the next network to churn out an adaption of a book about the dystopian futures after the successes of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale and Amazon's The Man in the High Castle.

Entitled Kelvin's Book, the dystopian, near - future series follows a group of youths «forced to make an emergency landing outside of their home and are confronted with the actual face of their home country for the first time,» according to a press statement.

3:45 am (14th)-- TCM — Fahrenheit 451 François Truffaut's first foray in English - language film was this adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel, following fireman (that is, book - burner) Montag as he comes into contact with a group of fugitives intent on preserving the knowledge in books even as the government tries to destroy them, and he begins to wonder if perhaps they are right.

Having only read the first book of the series I was not prepared for various dramatic underpinings that would catapult me into this dystopian drama on so many levels of engagement.

Alive: Book One of the Generations Trilogy by Scott Sigler This dystopian YA book mixes everything you loved from The Hunger Games series and Divergent series plus the world gets another badass female characBook One of the Generations Trilogy by Scott Sigler This dystopian YA book mixes everything you loved from The Hunger Games series and Divergent series plus the world gets another badass female characbook mixes everything you loved from The Hunger Games series and Divergent series plus the world gets another badass female character!

The details: Last year's not - bad big - screen adaptation of James Dashner's dystopian YA novel The Maze Runner has spawned a sequel, based on the second book of the series, The Scorch Trials.

The books envision a dystopian, futuristic United States - like country called Panem that's divided into 12 districts, with a Capitol that rules them, and the terrible game of bloodsport the Capitol makes those districts take part in.

Ready Player One's bubblegum whirlwind of pop culture nods is going to deliver a lighter, blockbuster - friendly spin on dystopian escape via cyber-reality when Spielberg's movie version of the book arrives at the end of the month.

The movie is set in a dystopian future where books are not allowed, as fireman Guy Montag (played by Jordan) has the task of burning all books.

Before The Hunger Games, before Battle Royale, there was another movie based on a book about a dystopian future where an evil government distracts the masses with a popular series of gladiatorial deathmatches.

I am vaguely aware that it's a satirical cop comic book series set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian future and that it probably influenced the creation of RoboCop.

«Fahrenheit 451»: Michael B. Jordan stars on this movie — in line with the dystopian drama of the similar title by way of Ray Bradbury — a couple of long run the place books are banned and ordered to be burned.

She was taking a break from work on her seventh book, a feminist dystopian novel in the tradition of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale but with what she calls a «distinctly Asian phenomenon» — that of the rising male - to - female birth rate and the consequences for society.

The independent survey of 2,000 adults asked which books they read and enjoyed at school and the dystopian novella won out against several plays by William Shakespeare and gothic horrors Frankenstein and Dracula.

I do n`t just read books that are dystopian, or mystery, or whatever other kind of genre, because I think these are somewhat arbitrary tags placed on a book in order to figure out what bookshelf it belongs to.

For example, in order for a book to appear in the category «Teen & Young Adult Mystery / Science Fiction», you must use at least one of the keywords «science fiction» or «dystopian».

Or, like me, have you ever tried to write in copycat genres dictated by agents (like steampunk or apocalyptic dystopian) instead of the book you really want to write?

Android Uprising is a truly fun book of solidly Christian cyberpunk dystopian YA.

Everyone looks down on them, but some of the best books I've read have been young adult (that is, until the publishers starting pushing everything vampire and dystopian).

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.

There is little to set the plot apart from other dystopian online future books other than the realistically juvenile nature of the online speech.

The next half of the book is set in a dystopian future where a group of survivors lives in a compound ruled by family caste system and this is where the book really comes into form.

Briefly the difference is that dystopian literature deals with worlds that are the very opposite of utopias, while post-apocalyptic books imagine the world after a devastating occurrence.

Since then, The Moon Dwellers has outsold and drawn more hype than any other of his 13 published books, and has risen to the top 10 of many YA dystopian lists on Listopia, finding a place amongst bestselling books such as The Hunger Games, Delirium and Divergent.

I find that Christian YA dystopian books for all ages are one of the leading edges of the Christian fiction world.

To celebrate the release of The Earth Dwellers by David Estes, the fourth book in both The Dwellers series and Country Saga, David is giving away UNLIMITED free eCopies of Fire Country, book one in the post apocalyptic, dystopian, Country Saga.

Fire Country swept me away with the strength of the main character, Siena, the imaginative dystopian setting based on different tribes, and the language and slang used within the book to demonstrate the cult - like, tribal setting of the Heaters of Fire Country.

Nonfiction children's books have always been my cup of tea, but for decades now I've had agents tell me «your book is great but I don't know how to market it;» or «nonfiction just doesn't sell well; do you have any dystopians or paranormals?»

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future is a multilayered, genre - defying book; it's also about the changing dynamics of teenage friendship, the uncertainty of post-high school plans and the dark and bizarre glimpses of a misogynist, dystopian future that Glory and Ellie begin to see after drinking a petrified bat (really).

Briefly the difference is that dystopian literature deals with worlds that are the very opposite of utopias, while post-apocalyptic books imagine the world after a...

Earlier this year, BookBrowse reviewer Cindy Anderson wrote about Dystopian Fiction in the Beyond The Book feature for Kat Zhang's What's Left of Me.