Dystopia

Dystopia is a form of literature that explores social and political structures. It is a creation of a nightmare world - unlike its opposite, Utopia, which is an ideal world.

Dystopia is often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government. It often features multiple kinds of repressive social control systems, a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expressions, and a state of constant warfare or violence.

Many novels combine Dystopia and Utopia, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of the two poss
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My Name Is Iris
The Great Transition
Prophet
Blue Skies
The Never-Ending End of the World
Forgive Me Not
Out of the Dawn
Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence
Prophet Song
Five Years After (After, #4)
The Lightstruck (The Darkening, #2)
The Sentence
When Monsters Love (The Monsters Among Us #3)
The Treatment
Ripe
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
Eternal Reign (Age of Vampires #1)
All the Dead Shall Weep (Gunnie Rose #5)
Deadlands
Crimson Kingdom (The Lochlann Feuds, #3)
Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)
Ripe
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
Androne (Androne #1)
Immortal Longings (Flesh and False Gods, #1)
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)
Outcast (The Grey Gates #1)
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