George Orwell's classic; a look at the totalitarian state that could be in post-war England.
What the novel "1984" has to say about what some have called today's surveillance society.
Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction novel, "The Handmaid's Tale,"; a look at some of the themes in this classic dystopian novel.
A look at Atwood's desire to tell a story from a female point of view, and what exactly it means to tell a story in that way.
John Green discusses Voltaire's Enlightenment novel, "Candide."
The near-future dystopia in Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower," which tells the story of Lauren Oya Olamina, and her life growing up in a post-climate change, semi-lawless America.
John Green
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