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Hughes Brothers to Direct Denzel Washington in Dystopian Drama Book of Eli
The Hughes Brothers Negotiating Deal to Direct the Live-Action Akira Remake | /Film 2010
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Jen Robinson is participating in something really cool called the Dystopian Book Challenge, started by Lisa at Books.
The WritingYA Weblog: Virtual Spaces for Teens, and Other Random Notes a. fortis 2007
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Jen Robinson is participating in something really cool called the Dystopian Book Challenge, started by Lisa at Books.
Archive 2007-05-01 tanita davis 2007
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There's actually a few more SF&F books that aren't in the Science Fiction/Fantasy color as they're under other genres such as Farenheit 451 and Animal Farm under "Dystopian", A Wrinkle in Time and The Giver under "Children's Lit", etc. but overall it's an LOL.
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Not that they are not perfectly good novels, but I think you have to stretch the definition of the word "Dystopian" to an unrecognizable shape to fit these books in that categories.
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'full spectrum' seen; somewhere between such 'paralysed force or gesture without motion' prevailing towards humanity, is where America is 'now' in reality as 'Dystopian' - this particular Economic Depression being well entered into, as 'shaft of truth by lie' aka
CounterPunch 2009
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"Dystopian" is indeed a characteristically male term, assuming an either / or, polarizing approach, rather than a more inclusive outlook.
Countercurrents.org 2009
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"Dystopian" also suggests the opposite of "utopia" which is an ideal place or state that is a vision of social perfection.
Countercurrents.org 2009
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Dystopian futures that seem like utopias to its residents?
May « 2010 « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2010
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Dystopian futures that seem like utopias to its residents?
And the hits just keep on comin’ « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2010
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