I want the next goddamn tyrant who tries to burn the past…

“He tried. That's the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The author is not impartial. Dystopia is not tragedy.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“A glacial chill rushes through Gage. He whips around just in time to see arms clutch Summer around the middle and drag her into…

— Laura Kreitzer

In the event of a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic dystopia, people with supplies of food and water could become warlords or chieftains in the social…

— Nish Kumar

“Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking…

— Anthony Ryan

“It was a room full of ghosts, arranged in readiness for days that would never happen.”

— Sharon Sant

“We’re a nonviolent collective working to undermine the Trust and free the Badlands. Once the Trust is exposed as lying and corrupt, we believe…

— Georgia Clark

“Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused…

— Jeff Phillips

“And that date, too, is far off?' 'Far off; when it comes, think your end in this world is at hand!' 'How and what…

— Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

— Eugene Ionesco

“Life involves a lot of unknowns.”

— S.L. Wallace

“There is no sanctity. This is the downfall of innocence.”

— Nadège Richards

“Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath”

— Kameron Hurley

“People always think the best is still ahead.”

— Slava Pilotoff

“We’re creating a dystopia, where the mania of the state isn’t secrecy or censorship but unfairness. Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure…

— Anonymous