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DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Dossier: McCarthy, Cormac. The Road [Knopf, 2006]Filetype: Book.File Under: Stateless dystopia.Executive Summary: In the aftermath of an unnamed ecological disaster (or possibly nuclear winter), a man...
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Microreview [book]: Empire Games, by Charles Stross
A timeline hopping and deeply political adventureI have a somewhat complicated relationship with Charles Stross. The stories and novels of his which are most renowned and most awarded are the stories...
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DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Dossier: Heller, Peter. The Dog Stars [Knopf, 2012].Filetype: Book.File Under: Stateless dystopia.Executive Summary: A pandemic flu wipes out nearly the entire population of the U.S., leaving only...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
I am partly saddened and relieved to be missing SXSW in Austin this week. While I enjoy going into the belly of the best and immersing myself in seas of people and technology, it is nice to escape the...
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THE MONTHLY ROUND - A Taster's Guide to Speculative Short Fiction, 02/2017
Well, you've made it through February. Congratulations. Come in out of the lingering cold. Get comfortable. Let me pour you something to take your mind off things. Or, at least, to take your mind on a...
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DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: Children of Men
Dossier: Children of MenFiletype: FilmFile Under: Statist DystopiaExecutive Summary: it has been 18 years since the last baby was born, and no one knows why. The entire world, save Britain, has fallen...
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DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: City of Lost Children
Dossier: City of Lost ChildrenFiletype: FilmFile Under: Stateless DystopiaExecutive Summary: One, a circus strongman in a surrealistic nightmare world that is equal parts Salvador Dali, Tom Waits...
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Things have been quiet around here regarding the Hugo Awards. We ran our second annual four part collective Hugo Award Longlist (1, 2, 3, 4) and then pretty much went radio silent. We want to be a...
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DYSTOPIAN VISIONS Guest Post: Ian Sales, "The Road to Dystopia"
Today we welcome Ian Sales with a guest essay for Dystopian Visions! Sales is the author of the award-winning Apollo Quartet (see our glowing reviews of this must-read series: here, here, here and...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
In non-comic related news, there is amazing Kickstarter in its final days that is worth your time and attention. Pandasaurus Games is running a campaign for Dinosaur Island, a game that has you...
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Nanoreviews: River of Teeth, Feedback, The Autumn Republic
Gailey, Sarah. River of Teeth [Tor.com Publishing, 2017]Um, did you know there was a serious plan to bring hippopotamuses to America to alleviate a meat shortage? I didn't either, but Sarah Gailey did....
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DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
Dossier: Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. [Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993]Filetype: BookFile Under: Stateless Dystopia Executive Summary: Los Angeles 2032, most Americans with any sort of...
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DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: 12 Monkeys
Dossier: 12 Monkeys.Filetype: Film.File Under: Stateless dystopia.Executive Summary: After a flu wipes out nearly all of the world, a man named Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back in time to try to stop...
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Microreview [book]: From Ice to Ashes by Rhett C. Bruno
Where Cold and Dark WorksSpace is making a comeback. Movies like The Martian, Interstellar, and Gravity have been big hits. Have you seen The Expanse? That's a pretty good TV show, better than the...
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DYSTOPIAN VISIONS Get Out/Speak Out: Dystopia, Violence, and Writing as Action
When thinking about dystopia on a wider scale—how it works as a genre and as a piece of popular culture—I was interested in exploring the how/why behind these depictions. So I did what all good writers...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
After some pretty packed weeks, my pull list only had two books this week. I decided that I would give the second issue of Man-Thing a whirl as I have enjoyed reading other R.L. Stine titles with my...
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6 Books with Matt Wallace
Matt Wallace is the author of The Next Fix, The Failed Cities, the novella series Slingers, a lucha-libre buddy-cop novella called Rencor: Life in Grudge City, and the absurdly good Sin du Jour novella...
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DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: Bioshock by Irrational Games
Dossier: Irrational Games. Bioshock. [2K Games, 2007]Filetype:Video Game File Under: Stateless DystopiaExecutive Summary: After your plane crashes into the Atlantic ocean, you swim to the shore of a...
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New Books Spotlight
Welcome to another edition of the New Books Spotlight, where each month or so we curate a selection of 6 forthcoming books we find notable, interesting, and intriguing. It gives us the opportunity to...
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Thank You
Today's announcement of the 2017 Hugo Finalists brings us much joy--not only because we are among the shortlisted, but because we are among a great collection of nominees. We are especially excited to...
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