_Miscellaneous: _Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, William Gibson's *Sprawl *trilogy ( Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive), Ursula K. _Science/Technology: _Andrew Niccol's Gattaca, Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson's Logan's Run. the inspiration for the film Soylent Green), Mike Judge's Idiocracy (film), Lois Lowry's *The Giver, *Veronica Roth's *Divergent *trilogy ( Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant).
Forster's The Machine Stops, Harry Harrison's Make Room! Make Room! (a.k.a.
_Corruption/Government: _Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy ( The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay), Jack London's The Iron Heel, Alan Moore's V for Vendetta, Ayn Rand's Anthem, Koushun Takami's Battle Royale. Butler's Parable of the Talents, Fritz Lang's *Metropolis *(film). _Class Inequality: _Neill Blomkamp's Elysium (film), Octavia E. That said, with its popularity at an all-time high, instances of people misusing the term "dystopian" are way up, too.īy Theme: _Environmental: _Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy ( Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam). It's still a subset of a subset today (speculative fiction > science fiction > dystopia), but it's also a buzzword that's thrown around in conversations about tech, privacy, net neutrality, climate change, politics, and just about any other hot-button topic. Wells called it "a treason to science." (Though that reaction might've been helped along by the fact that the novel was explicitly meant to parody some of Wells' previous work.) While the novel Brave New World has proven iconic over time, many science fiction writers at the time condemned Aldous Huxley's criticism of pharmaceutical culture as puritanical-even H.G. It's emerged from the larger pool of speculative fiction to be granted its own, if unofficial, subgenre, and the oft-cited "Dystopian YA fiction" trend has generated billions of dollars in recent years.īut it hasn't always held such status in the literary landscape. Now, 146 years, two world wars, thousands of texts, and countless technological advancements later, dystopia is looking pretty good for its age. That's when philosopher John Stuart Mill (piggybacking off his mentor Jeremy Bentham, who coined the word cackotopia for the same concept 50 years prior) used it in a speech ripping into the British government for its policies regarding Irish land. Of course, it's one of the first alien illustrations in the cinematic industry, and back then aliens were indeed scary and mysterious creatures for humans.As far as we know, the word "dystopia" was first uttered back in 1868. In this movie, you see the aliens as terrifying creatures with no pity.
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SEE ALSO: FACT OR SCIENCE FICTION: HOW ACCURATE ARE SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST ICONIC SCI-FI FILMS?Īfter this, the movie gets scarier. After touching the egg, a creature comes out, breaks through the helmet of a crew member attaches itself to his face. Following the signal, they find an alien ship, enter it, and they see egg-like objects. The spaceship's computer, Mother, detects a transmission from a nearby moon LV-426 and it awakens the crew. In Alien, a space tug called Nostromo is returning Earth with a seven-member crew. It'll never not be a classic! Source: Matthew J.
So maybe this movie was pointing to the reality, who knows?Īs you can see, A Space Odyssey offers a cinematical and visual feast, and it's definitely ahead of its time with the technology Kubrick puts forward in the movie. With not really much of developed technology in hand, it must be hard to create this kind of scientifically developed universe but the human mind never stops dreaming and believing! Maybe we haven't discovered a well-developed nation under the surface, but we sure have started to use the robots in real life, and it seems like we'll do it more in the future. So, as you can see, in a 1935 movie, all the limits of technology were crossed. There are towering buildings, robots, laser-guns, advanced television and much more. In the movie, Murania is a super-scientific and technologically advanced nation 25,000 feet below the surface. Retro Futurism Themes The most modern concepts of retro futurism design blend cultural elements of the past with pop culture, concepts of scientific progress, innovative technology. Muranians make up the lost tribe of Mu, a legendary continent that went underground 100,000 years ago. Nowadays, Retrofuturism is found in literature, architecture, design, movies, retro-futurism wallpaper, retro-futurism decor, computer games, music, and fashion. In the Phantom Empire, Gene Autry, a singing cowboy who does daily live broadcasts is kidnapped by the inhabitants of a secret underground empire called Murania. Anyways, it seems like the first sci-fi movie really led to future developments in technology, don't you think so? Source: Georges Méliès/Wikimedia Commons 2. Stranger Things Science fiction has been a huge market ever since its creation and shows no sign of stopping.