Dystopia is Everywhere!

The Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner, The Walking Dead... All successful franchises. And what do they have in common? Dystopia.
DYSTOPIA: an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. The opposite of utopia.
Has Dystopia lost its meaning? Is it beginning to mean the exact opposite of what it's meant to? This obsession with the danger and destruction appears to be quite prevalent in recent teen fiction it's got to a point now where we wish for our lives to be like these dystopias; whether you want to put someone you hate in the arena or take your best friend as your zombie killing partner, the influence of dystopian fiction has been massive!

Not this Jonathon Ross but we love him too!

I've been sent a copy of Image Comics' America's Got Powers by Jonathan Ross and Bryan Hitch which fits in to this topic of Dystopia perfectly... The general plot of this story is that a crystal came down to earth and landed in San Francisco and all the pregnant women in a 5 mile radius gave birth to healthy, supernatural children. These children were segregated from normal kids and now fight on live TV for the chance to join the super team of heroes.
So yeah...I guess it's pretty similar to the Hunger Games but isn't everything now? Plus I think the super powers give this story an edge over the others; it's turned the concept on its head and makes it seem more like a utopia on the surface which most dystopias don't do. It's pretty different and I'm really enjoying it.
Are there any other dystopias you think don't get enough attention? Let me know, maybe I'll add it to my reading list!

That's it for now!
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