Category Archives: Dystopian Fiction
The House of the Scorpion: A Clone’s Life in a Dystopian World
Farmer, Nancy. The House of the Scorpion. 380 p. New York: Scholastic. 2002. In a dystopian world, sometime in the not-too-distant future, Matteo Alacran is the clone of El Patrón, the 146 year-old drug lord and ruler of the land of Opium. Opium is a small strip of land between the United States and Aztlán …
Fahrenheit 451: The dystopian future that’s become our present
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. 165 p. New York: Ballantine Books. 1953. Guy Montag is a third-generation fireman in a world where firemen are fire starters. An alarm gets raised, and Guy races to the reported site and burns every book on the premises. Book ownership has been outlawed. Literature, with its challenging concepts and provocative …
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