![]() ![]() When you think through what you might do in those circumstances, it affords you-or at least you hope it does-some level of preparedness. ![]() I think we can see in them a future that we don’t want to happen. A lot of what’s happening to us- climate change, the spectre of war, a pandemic-are worked out or grappled with through these novels. It makes all those structures of society that make life sanitised and safe suddenly disappear, and I think that’s something that can be particularly appealing to young people-the idea of suddenly, drastically having agency.Īlso: whether young or old, we’re living at a time where the world is often stranger than fiction. Dystopias put you in a world where characters (and thus, in some way you, as a reader) have to fight to survive. One of the books I’m going to talk about is Z for Zachariah I remember it lighting a flame in me. What is the appeal of books featuring near-future dystopias?įor me, they’ve held an appeal since I was a child. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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