Found 10 works tagged 'dystopia'.
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
Published Mar 29, 2020 · 1,220 words (5 minutes) · 21 views
Science Fiction rooftop view End of the world dystopia Dying Earth rockets fireworks umbrellas
A boy and his friends watch macabre fireworks and say goodbye to one of their own.
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Smoke & Hamsters
Published Mar 7, 2020 · 4,946 words (18 minutes) · 96 views
Humor Science Fiction gross out dystopian consumption dystopia late-stage capitalism cyberpunks
One of, if not the weirdest story I've ever written. The idea came to fruition when I was driving around with my friend Matt. What had originally been written as a comic script back when I was still under the impression that that was a thing I'd be doing, it got trunked for years,then reworked as a short story. It found a home in the final issue of the forever beloved Broadswords and Blasters. Minor content warning for bodily excretions.
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You Can Take It With You
Updated Feb 22, 2020 · 27,292 words (100 minutes)
Science Fiction dystopia serial novella Afterlife death dystopian neural uploads coping
It's been said of wealth that you can't take it with you when you die--but now, you can. As long as you've got the money, you can pay to have a digital duplicate of your consciousness cavort in a simulated afterlife on a private server forever. Unless you're Lehann Margrove, who got separated from his husband and duped into a "Paradise" he never wanted.
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Announcing a complete novella in 7 parts: "You Can Take It With You"
Published Jan 4, 2020 · 252 words (1 minute) · 100 views
Science Fiction dystopia serial novella Afterlife death dystopian neural uploads coping
Announcing "You Can Take It With You," a science fiction novella about privatized digital afterlives. One new chapter will post each week.
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Stories of... queer survival
Published Jan 3, 2020 · 994 words (4 minutes) · 2 likes · 157 views
zombies apocalypse queer dystopia queer communities recommendations Stories of...
Welcome to my first Stories of... post, a monthly series in which I'll recommend both short and long science fiction and fantasy on a particular theme. This week I'm looking at a contrast to the tragic queer tropes - stories of queer survival.
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Green
Published Nov 28, 2019 · 2,365 words (9 minutes) · 4 likes · 430 views
Literary Fiction Science Fiction dystopia reprint near-future story near future midwestern author jen knox dystopian near-future SF
Joseph’s only deviation from regulation minimalism is an illicit second bicycle... until he meets Alyssa, a dumpster-diving, live-streaming, crowd-funded wanderer.
Award-winning author Jen Knox hails from Ohio, and her work has been featured in The Best Small Fictions 2017, The Saturday Evening Post, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and NPR, among many others.
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The Vision of Miss Elaine
Published Oct 18, 2019 · 6,750 words (25 minutes)
Science Fiction dystopian sad relationships dystopia tragic tragedy
Thanks to a new neural imaging technique, Science can now peer so deeply into a human mind, it's possible to map a person's private mental landscape of symbolic representation--and use that map to build a piece of Art so perfectly tailored, it stops the customer from hungering for any other Art forever. To support his family, artist Mick Lawson is forced to work in the industry that's killing his craft... and in doing so, he meets a client who might also destroy his marriage.
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The Edifice
Published Jul 9, 2019 · 1,574 words (6 minutes) · 193 views
Horror Literary Fiction Satire Science Fiction dystopia
What will society become at the end of the world?
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The Lady Macbeth Blues
Published Jul 4, 2019 · 6,890 words (26 minutes) · 6 likes · 539 views
Science Fiction dystopia nanotechnology BSFA nominee
As jobs are automated away, a rising tide of “traditional values” groups erodes the rights of women to hold jobs or leave marriages. But as they’re poised to cement their control with longevity-increasing nanotechnology, just one woman stands in their way. This BSFA Award-nominated story was originally published in Interzone.
Author Stephen Dedman has been publishing short stories and novels for more than twenty years. He’s been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and many more. Content warning: racism, misogyny.$1.00
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Survival Skills
Published May 3, 2019 · 2,587 words (10 minutes) · 1 like · 271 views
Science Fiction dystopia Aikido
This is a near future story, but since I wrote it back in the 1990s, it turns out to be set in the present day. I was going to change the dates for this reprint version, but when I re-read it I realized I had assumed a stock market crash in 2008. Given what actually happened in 2008, I'm a little scared to pick a new date for economic collapse. I'd rather not be right again.
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