In The Gold Coast ( 1988 ) we learn about the Southern California of 2027, a dystopian extension of today's Los Angeles and car oriented architecture, mobility and life-style: " an endless sprawl of condos, freeways and malls.

Notable acting roles include the lead in the film Wilde, Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, the titular character in the the television series Kingdom, a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the crime series Bones and as Gordon Deitrich in the dystopian thriller V for Vendetta.

The story is set in a dystopian future where global warming has devastated most of the earth and the world is suffering from an economic depression which led to increased crime.

The novel is set in a dystopian future United States following a Second Civil War which led to the collapse of the nation's democratic institutions.

Set in a dystopian present, the plot revolves around the contestants of a gruelling walking contest, held annually by a somewhat despotic and totalitarian version of the United States of America.

Spider Jerusalem dedicates himself to fighting the corruption and abuse of power of two successive United States presidents ; he and his " filthy assistants " strive to keep their world from turning more dystopian than it already is while dealing with the struggles of fame and power, brought about due to the popularity of Spider via his articles.

The novel is set in a dystopian alternate reality in which most nations ( now controlled by the United States ) are dominated by for-profit corporate entities while the government's political power is extremely limited.

The book is set in a dystopian United States where civil war has broken out between different political, racial and gendered groups.

The game is set in a dystopian 2095, and the United States of America is under the control of a fascist theocracy called the " Hand of God ".

Written by Paul Jenkins with art by Kyle Hotz, the book followed a team of cyborg mercenary police in a dystopian future United States.

The story is set in a dystopian near-future where the United States have split into several extremist factions, and tells the story of Martha Washington, a young American girl from a public housing project called " The Green " ( see Chicago's Cabrini – Green ).

The novel's setting is decidedly dystopian ; the book deals with the deterioration of the environment in the United States.

In The Running Man, a Richard Bachman novella set in a dystopian future, Derry is home to a large airport consisting of acres of parking lots, a huge " Northern States Terminal ," several runways with the capacity to support large widebody aircraft, and a large fuel tank farm.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

and among works of dystopian science fiction, not all provide intelligent criticism and very few have much merit as literature -- but then real quality has always been scarce in science fiction.

McAuley has also used biotechnology and nanotechnology themes in near-future settings: Fairyland describes a dystopian, war-torn Europe where genetically engineered " dolls " are used as disposable slaves.

Political pessimism has sometimes found expression in dystopian novels such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

* Woman on the Edge of Time ( 1976 ) by Marge Piercy, the story of a middle-aged Hispanic woman who has visions of two alternative futures, one utopian and the other dystopian.

The film's dystopian depiction of " genoism " has been cited by many bioethicists and laymen in support of their hesitancy about, or opposition to, liberal eugenics and the societal acceptance of the genetic-determinist ideology that may frame it.

Simon realises that it is Devereaux who is the source of the dystopian futures they have witnessed, and that the Traynor they know has been a clone all along.

The Alton Estate has featured as a film and television location, Fahrenheit 451 ( 1966 ) used some of the estate as its backdrop for a bleak dystopian society of the future, and Thames Television's film division Euston Films used the Danebury Avenue area of the estate to film the opening scene's of Sweeney 2 ( 1978 )-the sequel to the film Sweeney!

* The 2002 film Equilibrium depicts a dystopian society which has eliminated human emotion, and burned all cultural influences that can cause emotion.

Beneath a Steel Sky is set at an unknown point in a dystopian future in Australia, where the Earth has been significantly damaged by pollution and / or nuclear fallout.

Full Throttle was designed by Tim Schafer, and follows the story of a biker in a dystopian future who has been framed for murder.

Telempath is a science fiction novel by Spider Robinson set in a dystopian near-future in which human cities have fallen into ruin and the population has been sharply reduced.

Philbrick has also written the cyberpunk dystopian novel The Last Book in the Universe and the science fantasy REM World.

Thomas is best known for the part of Roj Blake in the dystopian science fiction television series Blake's 7, but has taken roles in many other films and television programmes, including Adam Brake in Children of the Stones.

In its sequel, Half-Life 2, Gordon is introduced to a dystopian world years after the Black Mesa incident, along with an interdimensional alien overlord force known as the Combine, which took advantage of the interdimensional portals and has established itself as the ruling force on Earth.

* People spend most of their time in full-immersion virtual reality ( Kurzweil has cited The Matrix as a good example of what the advanced virtual worlds will be like, without the dystopian twist ).

In the dystopian alternate future seen in the miniseries The Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect, in which the Hulk has become the insane megolomaniac known as the Maestro after two nuclear wars, the elderly Rick Jones is the near-senile and crippled leader of the last bastion of resistance against the Maestro.

He has also written a number of novels, including Rekill and the dystopian science fiction novel The Last Crime, this last under the pseudonym John Domatilla.

After ordering bonuses and stocks for every employee, committing Novicorp's Chairman to a month of " compulsory rehab " via doppeling and changing both his and Apollonia's identity to Rick and Ilsa ( respectively ), the characters from Casablanca, Fingal, who by now has absolute and total access to and control of the system, vows to fight against the dystopian government.

The setting is California in 2006, part of a dystopian world where the middle class has essentially evaporated leaving only multinational corporations and their exorbitantly rich elite and the poor who are mostly security officers, couriers, or otherwise work in minor service positions.

In particular, marijuana has seen a renaissance in its utopian and dystopian representation in popular culture, such as in the suburban satire American Beauty ( 1999, dir.

The atmosphere generated by the dystopian Combine state has been praised by reviewers, although the artificial intelligence of the transhuman Combine characters was thought to be inferior to that of other characters in Half-Life 2.

After a three decades or so hiatus from acting, Conant re-emerged on off and off-off Broadway stages in productions ranging from Gene Ruffini's dystopian Homeland, Anne Fizzard's back-stage comedy Good Opinions, and Tuvia Tenenbom's absurdist satire Kabbalah.

( George Orwell would forty years later specifically and explicitly deny that consolation to his Winston Smith though he confirms it in appendix, and so would other later dystopian writers.

Kitano plays Kitano in Battle Royale ( 2000 ), a controversial Japanese blockbuster set in a bleak dystopian future where a group of teenagers are randomly selected each year to eliminate each other on a deserted island.

Seeking to focus his main energies on completing a novel destined to become the dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell had fled the distractions of London in April 1947 and taken up temporary residence on the isolated island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides.

The cityscape of Metropolis was inspired from Lang's trip to Manhattan and was, in turn, an inspiration for several dystopian science-fiction films including Blade Runner and Dark City.

The song is about a dystopian futuristic society in which the arts, particularly music, have been suppressed by the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx.

* The Name of the Game: A 1971 episode of the series is entitled L. A. 2017. Notable as the first feature-length piece directed by Steven Spielberg, the episode features Gene Barry as a magazine publisher transported to a dystopian Los Angeles in 2017, where the residents have been driven underground by pollution.

Critical responses to the programme have been polarised ; reviewers praised its dystopian themes and " enormous sense of fun ", but broadcaster Clive James described it as " classically awful ".

There have also been fully dystopian science fiction societies where all people's physical needs are provided for by machines, but this causes humans to become overly docile, uncreative and incurious.

Some Imaginary Tales and Elseworlds have been assigned their own alternate ( numbered ) Earths in both the DC and Marvel Universe ; others ( like Frank Miller's dystopian Dark Knight Returns or Mark Waid & Alex Ross ' Kingdom Come have variously been considered pseudo-canonical, as potentially in-universe futures for their respective casts.

In defiance against the edicts of his fellows, he manages to rediscover electricity, a technology that had been lost by the dystopian society of the story.