“Station Eleven” examines art in many forms, through flashbacks and in the present. The novel presents a very different view of the post-apocalyptic landscape than we’re used to. […]
What all apocalyptic stories have in common is a question of whether the survivors can manage to rebuild society as they knew it or even build a better one. The answers vary in different works of fiction. […]
Living in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event isn’t easy. To take us to these specific dystopias, writers use different means to create their worlds. The events that set the stage for an apocalypse affect the aftermath significantly. […]
The total reliance on Feed technology provides distractions rather than solutions. This is a perfect backdrop for a great cyberpunk dystopian narrative. […]
Like other Young Adult, and especially cyberpunk, novels, the dystopia in “Little Brother” is disrupted by a teenaged protagonist who outsmarts the system. […]
Cyberpunk privileges the outsider, or sometimes a group of outsiders, who are usually young and incredibly talented hackers. […]
Margaret Atwood strongly believes in the power of narrative. We write stories and they matter. To Atwood, they matter maybe more than anything else we do since they’re what we leave behind. […]
Atwood provides an analysis of power in “The Handmaid’s Tale” that is nuanced and complicated. She suggests that it’s very hard for someone who holds power to accurately assess how that power functions. […]
With his ambiguous heterotopia, Samuel Delany is showing us that a perfect place is impossible. It’s definitely impossible in a postmodern world. […]
Judith Butler’s work became one of the cornerstones of queer theory, of a gender politics that takes back the word queer, refusing to think of it as derogatory.
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