1. Dystopia

2. Dystopian stories The setting is the opposite of a “utopia”
A dystopia is a (usually futuristic) society that is striving to be perfect but is actually full of problems
Examples of dystopian stories??

3. According to John Joseph Adams…
“…in a dystopia, the society often gives up A in exchange for B, but the benefit of B blinds the society to the loss of A; it is often not until many years later that the loss of A is truly felt, and the citizens come to realize that the world they once thought acceptable (or even ideal) is not the world they thought it was. That’s part of what is so compelling—and insidious—about dystopian fiction: the idea that you could be living in a dystopia and not even know it.”
--Brave New Worlds, Introduction