A Few of My Favorite Things: Dystopian Fiction

I’ve talked about a variety of fiction on here because geeks love their escapism and sometimes reality as we know it isn’t enough. I’ll never be rainbows and kittens in my sugar and sometimes, I have to indulge the darkness. I still need to work on optimism but seeing a world that’s worse than mine sometimes makes the whole thing feel better.

I like seeing what other writers imagine as a worse world. What have they changed? What has accelerated? What force are people trying to fight? In dystopian novels, people unite against a cause or toward a solution. While their world is bleaker, they’re also working to save it.

If I hadn't been doing my experiment in optimism, I don't know if I'd have noticed the other layer to dystopian fiction. I'm sure that reason would have been there whether i knew it or not but would I have noticed it?