This piece originally ran in 2017. The plots of dystopian novels can be amazing. A group of teens in Holland, Mich., tells me about some of their favorites: In Delirium by Lauren Oliver, Love is ...

Dystopian fiction is far from the easiest subgenre to escape into, considering the inherent darkness and ominous warnings of what our future could become. But they're also undeniably enthralling, ...

I was 14 or 15 the first time I read The Handmaid’s Tale. I felt changed after. We all have books like that, that change your thinking and perspective in such a way that they make you different —as if ...

From comfort reads to climate fiction, USA TODAY shares the books that defined 2025 and why these stories resonated.

Fifty years ago this week, Kurt Vonnegut published the dystopian classic “Slaughterhouse-Five.” With everything that’s going on in the world, it’s easy to feel as though we’re living in a dystopia ...

Dystopian fiction has been a staple of the world of literature for a long time. Famous pieces like “1984” by George Orwell and “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood aim to criticize parts of the ...

Plus, Netflix's One Piece finds even more new faces for season 2. Drew Goddard (The Martian, The Cabin in the Woods) will write and direct the new movie, with series co-creator Lana Wachowski ...

Four weeks ago, while sitting in my office (remember those?), I pitched an idea for a book review: it was about how we didn’t need more dystopian fiction. How the new dystopian fiction was just a ...

From The Handmaid’s Tale to Parable of the Sower, Before She Sleeps to Vox, female-centered dystopian fiction has been giving voice to women’s greatest rage — and deepest fears — for decades. But ...

After President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, sales of famous dystopian novels ” are now regularly presented in real world media — blatant misinformation to advance a political agenda.

If there’s a person you want to talk to in the midst of a pandemic, it’s probably a writer of speculative fiction — someone whose imagination is as wild and gnarly as the wild and gnarly times. Marlon ...