Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And with COVID-19, dystopias featuring diseases have taken on new life. Netflix reports a spike in popularity for “Outbreak,” “12 ...

Dystopian fiction is hot. Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale have skyrocketed since 2016. Young adult dystopias — for example, Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, ...

“Why does the land of plenty love dystopias?… Maybe the lure of dystopia is that it’s one of the few remaining popular genres that seem to invite tragedy. Not cheap accidental tragedy, but the real ...

Sephy and Callum as played by Masali Baduza and Jack Rowan in the BBC adaptation. Ilze Kitshoff/BBC/Mammoth Screen Between 2013 and 2015, Malorie Blackman was Britain’s first black children’s laureate ...

The word “dystopia,” meaning “an unhappy country,” was coined in the seventeen-forties, as the historian Gregory Claeys points out in a shrewd new study, “Dystopia: A Natural History” (Oxford). In its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Liam Cobb / For The Times) “Dystopian” TV may seem ubiquitous, but not all dystopias look the same. We asked the creatives behind ...