dystopian

I'm sure some here will remember For All Time; a super-dystopian but fairly realistic work from 2001. For those that don't, it can be downloaded here. A map at the conclusion can be found here. The North American Confederation (NAC) is the most obvious oddity, and it's existence is not well...

As it says on the tin. Dystopias tend to be an almost exclusively post-industrial topic when brought up in history, politics, and fiction. Share some examples of what you think are the most dystopic premodern states, societies, and regimes. If you'd care to, provide some examples of possible...

Okay, so your alternate history challenge for today is to make the entire world as shitty as is semi-plausible by the turn of the millennium while avoiding the cliches of Nazi victory in WW2 and Soviet victory in the Cold War. Total nuclear warfare (such as was feared during the Cold War and...

So, I'm working on a dystopian TL with a POD where, instead of continuing to try to find ways to make trench warfare obsolete, various governments and scientists eventually decide that trench warfare is an inescapable fact of modern war, and begin investing in technology to make trenches even...

I was wondering if any of these (largely dystopian) ideas have been done here. Does anyone know of any post-1900 timelines that follow, or are very similar to, one of these scenarios? (each one is mutually exclusive, just to be clear) A timeline based on Nineteen Eighty-Four, where the POD is...