Dystopias

Tag: Dystopias

January 20, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

The Future of Our Past, a guest post by Lesa Cline-Ransome

There seems like an awfully long distance between the past and future and yet, whether it is 1940 or 2040, the questions I continue to find most intriguing are timeless. Who are we in the worst of times? What does it mean to survive? And, What do we want our world to look like?

November 2, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Writing a Dystopian Past, a guest post by Lyn Miller-Lachmann

My challenge lay in writing a novel set in a dystopian real world, Communist Czechoslovakia in 1969, that was 20 years away from liberation…and still offer hope to the reader.

February 26, 2019 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

This smart and engrossing read full of twists and turns tackles prejudice, privilege, lies, and hatred in a world where everyone seems like a potential spy, liar, or double agent.

Book review: The Prey by Tom Isbell

January 22, 2015 by Amanda MacGregor

At a recent YA book club meeting, we talked about some of the things that we dislike as readers, things that we’re so over. The list was of the long, varied, and ranty variety. It seems like every meeting we discuss our dysptopia-fatigue, so that made the list. If we’re going to read a dystopia, […]