dystopian fiction

collocation in English

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dystopian
adjective
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/dɪsˈtəʊ.pi.ən/us
/dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ən/
relating to a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, or to the description of such ...
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fiction
noun
uk
/ˈfɪk.ʃən/us
/ˈfɪk.ʃən/
the type of book or story that is written about imaginary characters and events and not based on real people ...
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She was also a forward-thinking and imaginative person, harboring an interest in horror, science fiction, alternate history, anddystopianfiction.
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Sure to be a hit with fans ofdystopianfiction.
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Dystopianfictionis the opposite: creation of a nightmare world, or dystopia.
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Its pattern is that ofdystopianfiction, but of a subtly nuanced flavor.
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Civil liberties activists and writers ofdystopianfictionbelieve that such programs have great potential for privacy violations, and have openly opposed the project.
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It has elements of magic realism anddystopianfiction.
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Several of her novels could be categorized as feminist utopian/dystopianfiction.
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Most authors ofdystopianfictionexplore at least one reason why things are that way, often as an analogy for similar issues in the real world.
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Such debates frequently surround literary and cinematic works that do not show the classic characteristics ofdystopianfiction, such as a government-like entity that seeks total control of individuals' lives.
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It is one work in the major wave of utopian anddystopianfictionthat characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth.
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Paranoid fiction often overlaps with many other genres, most commonlydystopianfiction, science fiction, and film noir, sharing many of its main themes and literary devices.
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Zajdel's most important works are of social anddystopianfiction.
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Dystopianfiction(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.
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Kidsreads.com called it a new and creative twist fordystopianfiction, with clever names for human things and great emotion for animals in the writing.
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