- Dystopian fiction
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- LC control number: gf2014026302
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- Original cataloging agency: IlChALCS
- Language of cataloging: eng
- Transcribing agency: DLC
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- Genre/form term: Dystopian fiction
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- Genre/form term: Anti-utopian fiction
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- Genre/form term: Antiutopian fiction
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- Genre/form term: Cacotopian fiction
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- Genre/form term: Counter-utopian fiction
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- Genre/form term: Counterutopian fiction
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- Genre/form term: Dystopian science fiction
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- Genre/form term: Dystopic fiction
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- Genre/form term: Negative utopian fiction
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- Genre/form term: Science fiction
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- Source citation: Booker, M. The science fiction handbook, 2009:
- Information found: p. 65-73 (dystopian science fiction: if a utopia is an imaginary ideal society that dreams of a world in which the social, political, and economic problems of the real present have been solved ... then a dystopia is an imagined world in which the dream has become a nightmare. Also known as anti-utopias, dystopias are often designed to critique the possible negative implications of certain forms of utopian thought)
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- Source citation: Gill, V.K. African American utopian critiques, 2006, viewed online Feb. 13, 2013:
- Information found: p. 2 (George Schuyler's Black No More (1931) is often seen as an anti-utopian text) p. 3 (Octavia Butler presents readers with a negative utopia, also known as dystopia, in Parable of the Sower (1993); counter-utopian science fiction novels) p. 5 (counter-utopian novels)
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- Source citation: World literature today, summer 1994:
- Information found: p. 597 (traditional utopian, dystopian, anti-utopian, and counterutopian fiction)
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- Source citation: LCSH, Oct. 21, 2014
- Information found: (Dystopian plays. UF Anti-utopian plays; Cacotopian plays; Dystopias--Drama; Dystopic plays; Negative utopian plays)
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- Source citation: GSAFD, 2000
- Information found: (Dystopias: Literally, "bad place." Use for works that are accounts of imaginary worlds, usually in the future, in which present tendencies, beliefs, principles, or theories are carried out to their intensely unpleasant culmination. Examples include George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave new world.)
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- Explanatory text: Fiction set in an uncertain future, in a society ruled by an ineffectual, corrupt, or oppressive regime or by aliens, robots, etc. For fiction set in a world or civilization after a catastrophic event (e.g., nuclear war, alien invasion, pandemic, environmental collapse), sometimes also including the period immediately preceding the event, see
- Heading or subdivision term: Apocalyptic fiction.
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- Explanatory text: Note under
- Subject heading or subdivision term: Apocalyptic fiction



