School textbooks are often changed to fit the whims of political parties. This censorship can drastically alter children’s perception of the world around them. Why are textbooks at the center of culture wars? […]
“Station Eleven” examines art in many forms, through flashbacks and in the present. The novel presents a very different view of the post-apocalyptic landscape than we’re used to. […]
What all apocalyptic stories have in common is a question of whether the survivors can manage to rebuild society as they knew it or even build a better one. The answers vary in different works of fiction. […]
Living in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event isn’t easy. To take us to these specific dystopias, writers use different means to create their worlds. The events that set the stage for an apocalypse affect the aftermath significantly. […]
There are lots of ways to read the immediate success of “The Hunger Games” as linked to concerns about the ongoing wars in the midst of economic chaos. […]
Suzanne Collins’s “The Hunger Games” is a well-written series, complete with a well-thought-out setting, complex characters, and a compelling plot. […]
Katniss Everdeen absolutely knows that she cannot bring a child into a world structured by the power imbalances that characterize the Capital and the Districts. […]
Octavia Butler’s works are neither purely utopian nor dystopian, and they suffer from neither a lack of movement nor a lack of strategies. They talk about different ideas of humanity and being open to change. […]
The Patternist series takes us to a distant future, probably on Earth, in which millions of people are connected together through telepathic links in a Pattern. […]
Earthseed proclaims “God is change”. Repeatedly, Butler’s novels show that the future is change. Survival is change. Perhaps, even, utopia is change. […]
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