Okay, I'm going to blame it on the darker nights – why I'm disproportionately dog-shown–the-lead excited about watching the third instalment of the dystopian phenomenon, The Hunger Games, when it ...

Lisbon’s new Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) seems like ideal location to consider the current mood of urban civilisation. The smooth, naturalistic yet futuristic building designed ...

Click on to see how a dystopia can act as a cautionary tale of why humanity cannot (and should not) be controlled.

The term dystopia, as everyone knows, means bad place. In the 19th century, however, dystopia had a medical meaning. These days, that medical meaning is generally conveyed by the word ectopia. From ex ...

In 2012, when my novel was published, readers felt sure it could never happen in the US. Now they’re calling it prescient I knew we were in trouble when undocumented immigrants started disappearing.

Many parents might feel worried on finding their teenage children addicted to grim visions of a future in which global warming has made the seas rise, the earth dry up, genetically engineered plants ...

If you think the total breakdown of society only happens in movies, take a good look around. What floor would you end up on? In this week’s homegrown sci-fi flick ‘High-Rise’, adapted from the 1975 ...

The approval of digital IDs heralds is heralding in a tech dystopia, and Labour is welcoming it, writes director of Big Brother Watch Silkie Carlo in today’s Notebook The “two-click killer” – a phrase ...