7 August 2017
We may or may not be living in a dystopian age, but we are certainly living in an age of dystopias. At every turn in a bookstore aisle, you're increasingly likely to stumble across a vision of our world, through the looking glass. You'll find the classics - your Orwells, Huxleys, and Atwoods - but you'll also find a rising crop of new entries into the dystopian canon, from younger authors with fresher concerns about what, precisely, could spell our doom. They don't just appear in the sci-fi section, either - dystopian fiction is firmly ensconced in book-club-ready literary circles, as well. It's fashionable to be pessimistic.