BLOG: Time's Running Out To Avoid Dystopia

Frankie Boyle and the sell-by date dystopia
The point of dystopia is to challenge the now, writes MarkCantrell, but after years waiting for his novel Citizen Zero's now-time to arrive, along comes this...

THIS was quite a startling headline to encounter in my tweetstream the other day, what with being the author of a dystopian novel and all.

 

Frankie Boyle condemns George Osborne for cuts so inhumane dystopian science fiction 'now has to be set just 18 months in the future' 

 

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