Every dystopia is masked by a utopia.

“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