... dwelling Fremen mastering their inhospitable habitat by ecological understanding. However, it is still a curiously underused sub-genre, especially in the face of the rise of environmental awareness in the 1960's. The aesthetics of dystopian literature is another aspect that plays a key role. Dystopian stories frequently take place in landscapes that diminish people, like huge cities with mastodontic architecture or vast wastelands ... recent than utopia. There had been a number of precedents set, such as the works of H.G.Wells (for example The Story Of The Days to Come, When The Sleeper...

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