The term dystopia ("bad place") has recently come to be applied to works of fiction,
including science fiction, that represent a very unpleasant imaginary world in which
ominous tendencies of our present social, political, and technological order are
projected into a disastrous future culmination.
including science fiction, that represent a very unpleasant imaginary world in which
ominous tendencies of our present social, political, and technological order are
projected into a disastrous future culmination.
—M.H. Abrams in A glossary of Literary Terms
