Dystopische Fiktion — Bücher

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Dystopian fiction depicts a highly controlled, oppressive society—often with surveillance, propaganda, strict rules, and curtailed freedoms—rather than a world destroyed by disaster. That distinguishes it from post-apocalyptic fiction (after a collapse) and from broader categories like science fiction or speculative fiction, which can include many kinds of imagined worlds.

The term comes from Greek: dys (“bad”) + topos (“place”)—a “bad place.” Classics like 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Fahrenheit 451 use bleak, regimented settings to warn about totalitarianism, censorship, and