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It Can't Happen Here.
Name: It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis.Type: Book.Written in: 1935Set in: 1936Why it's a dystopia: Near-bloodless Fascist (Italian-style, not German-style) takeover of the United States of...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Name: Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George OrwellType: BookWritten in: 1949Set in: ...1984.Why it's a dystopia: The world is broken up into three super-dictatorships, two of which are always at war with the...
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Car Wars
Name: Car Wars, by Steve Jackson GamesType: Board/Roleplaying Game (armored and armed car warfare on the dystopian highways of a future America).Written in: 1980, to begin with; there have been...
View ArticleOld RFK ad.
This is not quite a 'real' CfD, but it is kind of interesting: If only to remind folks that doom-mongering has been going on for quite a while. I also have some critical things to say about the short...
View ArticleNot really one (Branch Point)
Sorry, folks: I did have one to go over - Branch Point by Mona Clee (alt-history written by somebody who was perhaps a little too upset over what happened to Bill Clinton)... but then I realized that...
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A very minor note: GURPS OGRE.
It's not particularly earth-shattering or anything, but while consulting my copy of GURPS Ogre in preparation for the release of the game later this year I noted in the book's timeline that this year...
View ArticleA sort of observation, sort of slam: Logan's Run.
This would be a comment on the movie, not the book (I haven't read the book). Watch this clip: notice what's missing? Yup. People who aren't white. A somewhat common theme in 1970s and 1980s-style...
View Article"Apocalypse Not."
That is the title of a slightly surprisingly good article from Wired, slamming the stunningly bad track record of various groups when it comes to predictions of looming catastrophe - and that...
View ArticleEscape from New York.
Name: Escape from New YorkType: MovieWritten in: 1981Set in: 1998Why it's a dystopia: The country has a federal police service AND has turned Manhattan into a maximum security prison. Worse, the...
View ArticleContra Naomi Klein... dystopian fiction was popular in the 1970s, too.
This is rather amusing, in its way:Dystopian fiction is hot right now, with countless books and movies featuring decadent oligarchs, brutal police states, ecological collapse, and ordinary citizens...
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