[A few follow-up thoughts that didn’t fit in my previous post.] While dystopia ostensibly sets out to critique society, politics, and culture, to me that political and social critique is often the least interesting aspect of dystopian fiction...
I don’t know why I love dystopian fiction; but it’s certainly not because of the politics. I’ve often thought that if I go back to teaching I’d love to design a class on dystopian literature, a sadly misunderstood genre. It seems most critics...