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more about #dystopia more comments → Derek Pegritz: My GOD, I hate this kind of feminist biotopia nonsense. These "new societies" living in perfect harmony with the environment would last just as long a... more » Fate'sBitch: Spoilers: I was pretty disappointed. I couldn't stand how Ren was sloppily retconned into Jimmie's life. (actually, the whole character of Ren was an... more » Pope John Peeps II: Just a small quibble: they're always called Gardeners, but the actual name is God's Gardeners. And to call the science in a work of science-fiction "... more » englishmajorennui: I know some people get wrapped up in what they perceive as Atwood's anti-science bias, so I thought I'd share this quotation from an interview with he... more » Faustroll: It's good top see a review of a literary book here, rather than some weirdo science fiction. #yearoftheflood more » Jack_Burton: Ahem... Blood Car. #dystopia more » gigshaft: Recently BP discovered a huge deposit of oil under the Gulf of Mexico containing tens of billions of barrels of oil. The catch? It's seven miles dow... more » Klebert L. Hall: Look folks, here's the thing. Anybody out there not think the oil companies are greedy? Anyone? If peak oil was imminent, they'd be hoarding and pric... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Too expensive to drive? Here in the US, I bet you could get $10 a gallon for gas with no appreciable decrease in traffic. It's a big country and for a... more » Jeremy Tapsell: Wait, wait.. Am I going to be living Mad Max, or Faranheit 451? I is confus-ed. #dystopia more » lightninglouie: I know Patton Oswalt made fun of his crummy hometown movie critic for pointing it out, but I always did wonder: If refined gasoline was so hard to com... more » Turlough: I am not in any way saying that we shouldn't worry about peak oil, but I will say that it won't be the end of civilization. This may sound like delay... more » Franklin Harris: The current rise in the price of oil has nothing to do with oil and everything to do with the dollar. Oil is priced in dollars internationally. The do... more » Strick: Fortunately, we're discovering massive reserves of natural gas. Not quite as flexible as oil, but cleaner and usable it in cars, etc. with existing t... more » Arryma: I am gravely disappointed. Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war. Look at what remains of your gallant scouts. Why? Because you're selfish!... more » -
#bookreview
Vegan Rebels of the Bio-apocalypse in “Year of the Flood”
What happens when you get the apocalypse you wished for? That's what a band of eco-subversives called the Gardeners find out in Margaret Atwood's Year of the Flood, a story of humanity destroyed for meddling too much with the environment.
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#thecross
Brooding Citiscapes from Andrew Niccol's New Dystopian Thriller
Andrew Niccol, the writer and director behind Gattaca, returns to dystopia with The Cross, his new thriller starring Orlando Bloom. Early concept images reveal a darker, more futuristic urban dystopia than we saw in Gattaca. More » -
#dystopia
California Will No Longer Yield Fruit in 100 Years
Warming winters in California mean that the state may no longer produce its fruit and nut crops in the 22nd century. A new study reveals that the state famous for its fields of delicious fruit could soon be barren. More » -
#socialcontrol
Your Smile Will Be Monitored To Evaluate Quality Of Service
More than 500 employees of Keihin Electric Express Railway in Japan will be subject to "smile checks" every morning. Software will evaluate the quality of their grins, and alert them if they aren't looking happy enough. More » -
#quoteoftheday
Marge Piercy Explains The Difference Between Utopian And Dystopian Science Fiction
Marge Piercy explored both utopian and dystopian futures in Woman On The Edge Of Time, and she explained the difference between the two modes of imagining the future, in a speech at the University of New Mexico. More » -
#conceptart
When Machines Destroy the Earth - A Gallery
What will the planet look like when robots scorch it into sulfurous dirt? Or when machines convert the human world into a pile of iron and sludge? Check out our gallery of art that shows the world after the techno-apocalypse. More » -
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#madeconomics
Employment Maps from the Economic Apocalypse
A series of maps showing job gains and losses in the United States over the past five years makes a fascinating study of how joblessness spread across a country heading for massive economic recession. More » -
#tabletopgaming
Post-Apocalyptic Cannibal Hobbits For Your Next Game
A new post-apocalyptic creature catalog has arrived to mutate your Alpha Omega games. Called The Encountered, the book features everything from super-zombies to cannibal hobbits. And it's packed with gorgeous, monstery goodness. More » -
#futurism
Could Pirates Become an Army for the Stateless?
A group of pirates is holding a US ship captain hostage in East African waters after hijacking his freighter. Forget robot soldiers - the ancient pirate is the future of warfare in a post-national world.
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#dystopia
The Gorgeous Terror of Global Warming
Although nearly everyone fears global warming, images of what life will look like as our climate changes are often disturbingly beautiful. This is a supermassive urban desert dust storm. More » -
#bookreview
23rd Century Muslim Cyborgs in "Budayeen Nights"
"Blade Runner meets Casablanca written by Nelson Algren" would be the Hollywood pitch for Budayeen Nights, a collection of stories by the late George Alec Effinger. But there's much more to these hard-boiled, lemon-scented tales.
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#militaryfuturism
The Art of Defense Machines, Today in Washington, DC
Today the federal government of the US will be spending roughly $50 million on state-of-the-art defense during today's inauguration of President Barack Obama. Here, a robot bomb sniffer gets ready for the big day. More » -
#conceptart
Tatsuyuki Tanaka’s Cyberpunk Fairytales
Akira animator Tatsuyuki Tanaka illustrates darkly beautiful scenes of children occupying dingy, dystopic futures, filled with bodily transformations, man-machine interfaces, and cybernetic monsters. Check out our gallery below. -
#maps
World Disaster Map Gives You the Big (Terrifying) Picture
The National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications in Hungary has put together a helpful real-time map of global disasters. In this detail, you can see a series of earthquakes that hit Greece, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Russia today, as well as an explosion in Norway and a flood in Finland. More »
