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And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.

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.

The novels and stories like Pohl's Drunkard's Walk ( 1960 ), with the focus on adventure and with the dystopian elements only a dim background -- in this case an uneasy, overpopulated world in which the mass of people do uninteresting routine jobs while a carefully selected, university-trained elite runs everything -- are in all likelihood as numerous as dystopias.

Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;

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.

Nevertheless, with all these qualifications and exceptions, the current dystopian phenomenon remains impressive for its criticism that science and technology, instead of bringing utopia, may well enslave, dehumanize, and even destroy men.

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

A Clockwork Orange is a 1962 dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess.

A satire portraying a future and dystopian Western society with — based on contemporary trends — a culture of extreme youth rebellion and violence: it explores the violent nature of humans, human free will to choose between good or evil, and the desolation of free will as a solution to evil.

These buildings seem like a cross between a building and a living organism, nourishing and sheltering this futuristic dystopian society.

J. G. Ballard wrote a dystopian take on a self-contained building that is much like an arcology in his 1975 novel High Rise.

* David Wingrove's Chung Kuo series depicts a dystopian future Earth in which almost the entire population lives within several hyperstructures that are thousands of feet tall and span entire continents.

The film Blade Runner ( 1982 ), adapted from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, is set in 2019 in a dystopian future in which manufactured beings called replicants are slaves used on space colonies and are legal prey on Earth to various bounty hunters who " retire " ( kill ) them.

In 1974, Marvel Comics writer Rich Buckler introduced the cyborg Deathlok the Demolisher, and a dystopian post-apocalyptic future, in Astonishing Tales # 25.

The original Deathlok was a former soldier in a dystopian future.

In 2003, The Protomen released their debut album Act 1 ( The Protomen ) which borrows from the story of the Megaman franchise to create a dystopian rock opera.

Like Nineteen Eighty Four, Ayn Rand's dystopian story Anthem was also an artistic portrayal of a command economy that was influenced by We.

In " Episode One: L. A. Meltdown ", Duke fights his way through a dystopian Los Angeles.

If a worse, it is " dystopian ".

In a dystopian 1988, crime in the United States has increased 400 %, so the island of Manhattan has been converted into a giant maximum security prison.

* Kin-dza-dza !, a 1986 dystopian comedy / science fiction film by Georgi Daneliya

Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury.

* George Orwell's dystopian novel " Nineteen Eighty-Four " includes selections from a banned fictional book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, which citizens of Oceania are forbidden to read.

He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm ( 1945 ), which together have sold more copies than any two books by any other 20th-century author.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is often compared to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ; both are powerful dystopian novels warning of a future world where the state machine exerts complete control over social life.