Dystopian Fiction

Suzanne Collins' prequel to Hunger Games, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, sells more than 500,000 copies

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is set 64 years before the series protagonist Katniss Everdeen participated in the 74th Hunger Games and traces the story of her nemesis, President Coriolanus Snow.

Reading dystopian fiction during the coronavirus pandemic: Genre's prescience helps imagine a better future

Dystopian fiction issues warnings and predicts outcomes. It forces us to acknowledge that the evils of the world it depicts are systemic, that something new, something better rests upon the complete annihilation of the old world

Dystopian fiction offers lessons in fighting injustice, but genre's proliferation can encourage violent rhetoric, action

Responses to dystopian fiction suggest that people might be more inclined to draw ‘political life lessons’ from a narrative about an imaginary political world than from fact-based reporting about the real world.

Netflix's Leila exposes Indians to genre of dystopian fiction; is India ready to tell its cautionary tales?

Netflix's dystopian drama Leila is the most recent example of content that one could not have hoped to see either on television or in theatres.