Dystopian Novel

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A Dystopian Novel is a novel that takes place in a dystopia.



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  • (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopian_and_dystopian_fiction Retrieved:2015-3-10.
    • The utopia and its offshoot, the dystopia, are genres of literature that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal society, or utopia, as the setting for a novel. Dystopian fiction (sometimes referred to as apocalyptic literature) is the opposite: creation of an utterly horrible or degraded society that is generally headed to an irreversible oblivion, or dystopia. Many novels combine both, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of two possible futures. Both utopias and dystopias are commonly found in science fiction and other speculative fiction genres, and arguably are by definition a type of speculative fiction.

      More than 400 utopian works were published prior to the year 1900 in the English language alone, with more than a thousand others during the twentieth century.</ref>