Yes, allusions to George Orwell's dystopia crop up, but don't explain that much.
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Detroit was already veering toward a dystopia when I last worked there in 1990.
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Ship Breaker, for example, is dystopia at its grittiest and least fantastical.
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In fact, if everyone followed my path then we'd have created a very real dystopia.
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Dystopia is defined as a society characterized by poverty, squalor, or oppression.
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He sees parallels between the dystopia predicted in the story and the world today.
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What distinguishes Fforde's dystopia from other authors'is the supremacy of color.
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Moreover, you cannot lift people out of poverty by sinking the planet into dystopia.
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There's a new, perhaps, utopia, since I've been dealing with the dystopia for so long.
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State in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror
(dystopian) of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia
(dystopian) as bad as can be; characterized by human misery; "AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages"- Susan Sontag
A dystopia (from the Greek u03B4u03C5u03C3- and u03C4u03CCu03C0u03BFu03C2, alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is translated as "not-good place", an antonym of utopia, a term that was coined by Sir Thomas More and figures as the title of his most well-known work, "Utopia...
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The 2nd solo album of Betty X.
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