In the 1950s, such utopian scholars as Glen Negley and J. Max Patrick were dismissive of the role of science fiction in utopian literature, although utopian and dystopian currents have always been ...

Reflective of the mood of the times, dystopian fiction assumed the leading role in the utopian genre. Writers began to question both classical utopianism and the even more positively optimistic ...

Jonathan Swift’s provocative and controversial novel is infused with elements of science fiction. During his voyages the title character, Lemuel Gulliver, encounters utopian and dystopian ...

Mr Leggatt has also penned a monograph for Liverpool University Press, titled Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction, which is ...

Three startlingly relevant science fiction stories predict today's most pressing questions about AI's role in life and work.

Dystopian fiction, John Scalzi wrote for The Times ... disillusioned and grief-stricken Black couple tries to create a utopian society in a bunker in western Massachusetts, where they hope to ...