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May 29, 2018 · Young Adult fantasy and science fiction novels have been killing it on the complex dystopian front for years.
The Ministry for the Future is a climate fiction ("cli-fi") novel by American science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson published in 2020. Set in the near future, the novel follows a subsidiary body, established under the Paris Agreement , whose mission is to act as an advocate for the world's future generations of citizens as if their rights ...
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- 2020
In this essay, I argue that Ministry’s centering of money challenges and displaces the generic conventions of science fiction and realism, each of which has historically related to money in opposing ways.
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- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Buy on Amazon. While it was published in 1949, this famous work is predictably set in 1984. Orwell’s world foresees only three continental-sized nations, at least one of which is overseen by an ubiquitous, watchful government.
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Buy on Amazon. Set in a world that many of us avid readers would find nightmarish, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is the story of Guy Montag, a “fireman” who is becoming disillusioned with his job — to put it simply, he’s assigned to set fire to books, rather than put fires out.
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Buy on Amazon. In this once-futuristic world — the book was published in 1985 about the near future — America is taken over by a religious sect, and the order of the country is pushed back several centuries.
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Buy on Amazon. In contrast to the well-crafted orders we’ve encountered thus far, The Road transports us to a universe shattered by an unnamed catastrophe.
JLW: Economics is about money and wealth, but it’s also about labor, class, production, consumption, distribution, about risk, about the design of incentives or of organizations, and loads more...
From Gulliver's Travels, through Brave New World and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, this timeline explores the evolution of the science fiction novel.
Dec 2, 2013 · Critical Dystopia and Possibilities. By Raffaella Baccolini, Tom Moylan. First published in 2003. With essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Dark Horizons focuses on the development of critical dystopia.
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