If love dies, that's when we've all truly died.
Keary TaylorTags: inspirational dystopia
The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.
Bernard BeckettTags: dystopia you-ve-been-warned
Everything was so much sharper without the Link fogging me--sights, sounds, smells. It was exhilarating and shocking and terrifying. I knew my emotions had grown too strong. They were dangerous to the Community. They were dangerous to me.
But still, I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live. And that meant that I couldn't give the glitching up. At least not yet. Just a little bit longer.
Tags: life live science-fiction living dystopia sci-fi
The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by how much kids long to see themselves in stories. To see their identities and perspectives—their avatars—on the page. Not as issues to be addressed or as icons for social commentary, but simply as people who get to do cool things in amazing worlds. Yes, all the “issue” books are great and have a place in literature, but it's a different and wildly joyous gift to find yourself on the pages of an entertainment, experiencing the thrills and chills of a world more adventurous than our own.
And when you see that as a writer, you quickly realize that you don't want to be the jerk who says to a young reader, “Sorry, kid. You don't get to exist in story; you're too different.” You don't want to be part of our present dystopia that tells kids that if they just stopped being who they are they could have a story written about them, too. That's the role of the bad guy in the dystopian stories, right? Given a choice, I'd rather be the storyteller who says every kid can have a chance to star.
Tags: writing dystopia teens lgbtq minorities ya representation
Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people in headphones sat at a bank of machines: the blind and the illiterate force-fed with ‘opportunities’ by soothing machine voices. On the far wall, in large print, a poster declared: BEGGARS CANNOT BE CHOOSERS.
Mark CantrellTags: science-fiction dystopia social-justice unemployment welfare totalitarian-system-mechanisms
Only the sweetest of the sweet would bring brownies to the apocalypse.
Shelly CraneHer smile broadens, and for a moment, I feel that I recognize her.
"My name will be Edith Prior," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.
Tags: dystopia
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times
Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fellowship
With murder, lust, and greed.
Tags: dystopia fellowship margaret-atwood toby ren maddaddam-trilogy the-year-of-the-flood when-adam-first
Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?
~Disarming(Reign of Blood #2)
Tags: action dystopia suspense vampires thriller post-apocalyptic urban-fantasy mature-ya
It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.
Veronica RothTags: dystopia dystopian tris dystopian-fiction divergent tris-prior prior divergent-insurgent divergent-series
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