Dystopia
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A dystopia is an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives. It is an imagined place in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or envi
Life in Kowloon Walled City in British Hong Kong has often inspired the dystopian identity in modern media works.
People Leaving the Cities, photo art by Zbigniew Libera, which imagines a dystopian future in which people have to leave dying metropolises
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction are subgenres of speculative fiction in which the Earth's civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway cl
Dystopia
…unattainable goal, the complete loss of individuality, and heavy enforcement of conformity. Despite certain overlaps, dystopian fiction is distinct from post-apocalyptic fiction, and an undesirable society is not necessarily dystopian. Dystopian societies appear in many sub-genres of fiction and are often used to draw attention…
Albert Goodwin's painting Apocalypse (1903)
Imagination magazine cover, depicting an atomic explosion, dated March 1954
An artist's 1922 vision of a futuristic war
A cosplayer at a Comic Con in a Fallout-themed area