“Just because our world is wrong doesn’t mean people don’t enjoy the binds which are holding them in. At least their binds… — Rebecca Crunden Copy Share Image
“For whom, it suddenly occured to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was a room full of ghosts, arranged in readiness for days that would never happen.” — Sharon Sant Copy Share Image
“Only the sweetest of the sweet would bring brownies to the apocalypse.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
“Wishing for something doesn’t mean you should have it, and saying something doesn’t necessarily make it true.” — Paula Altenburg Copy Share Image
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was… — Sharon Sant Copy Share Image
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Oh, so it's not enough that I told you; it has to be in the right setting?" I raise my eyebrows. "Next… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that’s so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket.… — Georgia Clark Copy Share Image
In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are.… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Lena squeezed her eyes shut until white flashes popped. And in that moment she knew: nothing would ever be the same again.… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
“Not many people bothered to look for beauty beyond the greenhouses. They went about life with their heads down, just praying to… — Erica Lindquist Copy Share Image
“Level-1 or world space is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly. Garbage time is… — Nick Land Copy Share Image
“Believe nothing others tell you. That is Rule No 1 of life in Astro City. But what if the ones who set… — Lisa Alfonso Copy Share Image
“A powerful AI system tasked with ensuring your safety might imprison you at home. If you asked for happiness, it might hook… — James Barrat Copy Share Image
“Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels.… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
“Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
“A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“Zombies are not just fictional creatures that devour the flesh of the living. They also include those who follow the words of… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
“Elijah blinked in dazzling sunlight and took a deep breath. The sweet-pepper scent of meadow grass told him immediately where he was.… — Sharon Sant Copy Share Image
“(ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to make a woman… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“We would do well, as Orwell counselled, to see the traces of the dystopian around us, to find the ends of those… — Darran Anderson Copy Share Image
“And that date, too, is far off?' 'Far off; when it comes, think your end in this world is at hand!' 'How… — Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“Dystopia is not always an unhappy place. There are, as it happens, certain dystopias in which it's perfectly possible to be happy… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“We’re creating a dystopia, where the mania of the state isn’t secrecy or censorship but unfairness. Obsessed with success and wealth and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. 'If I wished,' O'Brien had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Find our way out, Greenie. Solve the buggin' Maze and find our way out.” — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“There has to be beauty left in the world, Julia," said Kiyu. "Otherwise we have nothing.” — Aron Christensen Copy Share Image
“The war didn’t break everything. It just kept unraveling afterward. The men dragged it back home with them...” — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
“Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.” — Leigh M. Lane Copy Share Image
“My fingers find his. They are warm, pulsing with genetically altered blue blood, powered by mirror matter.” — Georgia Clark Copy Share Image
