... is "reductio ad absurdum" can be seen as the maxim for almost every utopian/dystopian writer that followed. Nevertheless, dystopian stories take invariably take place in the future. The year 1984 may have past, but George Orwell's story described a plausible future scenario when it was published for the first time in 1949 and it may still come true in a not too ... dystopia has always been oppression and rebellion. The oppressors are almost always much more powerful than the rebels. Consequently, dystopian tales often become studies in survival. In Neuromancer (William Gibson, 1984) it ...

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