Kallocain
1940 · Book
Four futures
A society working exactly as designed, for someone else.
Dystopian work shows an oppressive or dysfunctional society from the inside — its rules, rituals, paperwork and the people who enforce them. The disaster is usually already administrated by the first page; what the story follows is the order built on top of it, and who is asked to pay for that order.
Oppressive systems, surveillance, bureaucracy and the everyday cost of compliance.
74 works tagged Dystopian
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1940 · Book
2000 · Manga
1990 · Comic
2016 · Game
2012 · Film
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