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Approximately two hundred and forty-one years after Ember was established, the city's supplies are in danger of exhaustion, and its hydroelectric generator is in decay, causing the power to go out intermittently. At their graduation ceremony, young people are assigned jobs by lottery: Lina Mayfleet is assigned the job of "Pipeworks Laborer" and ...
This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature. A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction states that dystopian works depict a negative view of "the way the world is supposedly going in order to provide urgent propaganda for a change in direction."
Manga series containing post-apocalyptic elements and taking place in a highly futuristic dystopian world Game 1990 War Rifts: A nuclear exchange triggers the return of Ley Lines and Interdimensional Rifts or portals. These Ley Lines and Portals subsequently cause several natural and supernatural disasters. Film 1990 Disease A Wind Named Amnesia
In Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, the tyranny is the soul-destroying life of modern western society.The protagonist rebels against this by organising atavistic bare-knuckle fights and then by leading Project Mayhem to destroy civilization.
Utopian and dystopian fiction are subgenres of speculative fiction that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction portrays a setting that agrees with the author's ethos , having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to readers.
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ (dus) 'bad' and τόπος (tópos) 'place'), also called a cacotopia [2] or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening.
A dystopian, giant futuristic metropolis, located somewhere in the United States. An outbreak caused by the release of a contaminated drink known as the OverCharge Delirium XT, turned most of the city's population into grotesquely mutated humans simply known as OverCharge Drinkers, setting the story of the game. Temple Gate, Arizona Outlast 2