Dystopian Literature

1516-01-01 00:00:00

Utopia

First use of word "utopia" by Sir Thomas More in his 1516 work Utopia.

1868-01-01 00:00:00

Dystopia

First use of the word "dystopia" by John Stuart Mill in a parliamentary speech.

1898-04-25 17:30:35

Spanish-American War

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1898-06-12 00:00:00

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

First novel about an alien invasion on earth Adapted into film in 1953 and again in 2005

1898-12-15 16:30:34

Boxer Rebellion

anti-imperialist rebellion in China

1899-10-14 02:45:25

Second Boer War

United Kingdom vs South African Republic and Orange Free State. U.K. won and both states were annexed

1903-07-02 10:27:48

First controlled flight by Wright Brothers

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1907-11-26 22:00:49

Bloody Sunday - Revolution of 1905 in Russia

unarmed protestors shot in Russia, beginning of revolution

1908-03-05 20:55:39

The Iron Heel by Jack London

oligarchic tyranny in the U.S.

1914-07-28 00:00:00

World War 1

1915-07-21 10:01:22

Armenian Genocide

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1917-03-08 03:53:26

Russian Revolution of 1917

revolutions against Tsarist autocracy

1921-01-01 00:00:00

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

nation made almost entirely of glass, allowing government to invade spy on people, everyone referred to by their number

1922-01-23 03:20:22

Benito Mussolini rules in Kingdom of Italy

fascism - a form of political authoritarian nationalism

1924-09-12 04:31:05

FBI founded by President Hoover

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1929-12-18 15:11:16

Great Depression

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1932-01-01 00:00:00

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

societal changes and developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning

1934-03-27 10:54:11

Mao Zedong proclaims Chinese Soviet Republic

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1937-07-01 00:00:00

Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin

an anti-fascist dystopian novel

1939-09-01 12:59:11

World War 2

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1941-09-14 00:33:36

The Holocaust

1945-08-06 00:33:36

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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1945-08-17 13:41:58

Animal Farm by George Orwell

allegory of Russian Revolution of 1917

1946-05-20 12:26:39

First images of Earth taken from space

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1947-01-01 12:10:41

The Cold War

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1947-02-14 13:51:57

Truman Doctrine

to contain communism

1949-01-01 00:00:00

1984 by George Orwell

tyrannical government - Big Brother

1949-07-14 13:59:04

Soviet Union tests atomic bomb

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1952-08-31 04:17:48

Detonation of Hydrogen bomb

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1953-01-01 00:00:00

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

society in which books are outlawed

1954-09-03 21:54:39

Brown vs. Board of Education

orders to end segregation in schools

1954-09-17 15:24:06

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

British boys get stuck on abandoned island; poses questions about human nature

1956-07-23 04:55:30

The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick

three psychic mutants used to track down potential criminals in an effort to prevent prime; questions free will later adapted into film by Steven Spielberg (2002)

1957-01-05 14:18:18

Space Age

beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1, the time period that includes the space race, space exploration, and space technology

1959-10-31 01:46:04

Vietnam War

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1960-07-23 04:55:30

Facial Justice by L.P. Hartley

society in which people have faces surgically altered so no one is too beautiful or too ugly

1961-04-02 06:49:58

Peace Corps founded

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1962-01-01 00:00:00

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

depicts extreme youth violence and how and to what extent the state tries to reform the youth

1962-04-02 06:49:58

Cuban Missile Crisis

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1963-07-23 04:55:30

La Planète des Singes by Pierre Boulle

apes become the dominant species and humans become animal-like later adapted into 1968 film Planet of the Apes

1963-11-09 10:53:48

MLK Jr. "I Have a Dream" Speech

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1964-07-23 04:55:30

The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson

set in London during a nuclear war with dystopian dictatorship over all of Europe

1967-07-23 04:55:30

The Tripods by John Christopher

post-apocalyptic young adult series in which humans are ensalved by "Tripods" machines controlled by aliens

1968-07-23 04:55:30

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

explores what it is to be a human - poses the differences between humans and androids

1969-07-23 04:55:30

The Jagged Orbit by John Brunner

interracial tensions combined with selling and use of weapons in US 2014

1970-07-23 04:55:30

This Perfect Day by Ira Levin

technocratic dystopia, world run by central computer technocracy - government run by those with technological knowledge

1971-11-22 21:07:49

Invention of the microchip

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1972-07-23 04:55:30

The Sheep Look Up

science fiction, environmental problems that lead to rioting in the U.S.

1974-11-01 17:03:57

World population reaches 4 billion

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1975-07-23 04:55:30

High Rise by J.G. Ballard

future overpopulated world, takes place in a high rise

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