Dystopian movies are one of the most interesting genres in filmmaking. While filmmakers can create a reality and a future out of pure creativity, they can also introduce mind-bending concepts with ...

Nasia Morehead, a student at Auburn High School, won the International Creative Writing Competition for the Future Problem Solving Program with a short story set in a dystopian future, in which a ...

With the latest installment of Hunger Games on the way, it’s easy to look back at this franchise with nostalgia. The books ...

This story first appeared in the May 2025 issue, which also features short fiction by R. P. Sand, Gene Doucette, Martin Cahill, Russell Nichols, Meg Elison, Jonathan Olfert, Nancy Kress ...

Her teacher gave her a prompt of dystopian short story, and that was all it took for Marilyn Bettner to begin threading words together that formed a story about family, humanity, and music.

In fact, one of his earliest gigs was another NFB animated short called One Divided by Two: Kids and Divorce, a film about how triggering divorce can be, which itself was pretty triggering for ...

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Teach Them a Story to Teach Them ...

“A Thousand Blues,” Cheon explores a dystopian future where humanity grapples with the absence of elements once taken for granted. The collection includes eight short stories written between ...

When the gold runs out While the general premise of the genre offers much to work with, sometimes the products fall short of expectations. Dystopian literature fails to please when it compromises ...

By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Francis Ford Coppola says his twist on the dystopian sci-fi movie genre ... but that was followed by short and polite applause at the end of the late night ...