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When You’re Living in A Dystopia Why is Writing Fiction Challenging?
I am not a fan of the growing dystopia that is our world today.
As a reader of sci-fi, I’ve enjoyed many dystopian stories, including S now Crash, The Hunger Games series, Ready Player One, and others. As an author of sci-fi, the nature of the second-class status of the military clones in my Forgotten Fodder series — after they have no purpose — fits into the dystopian genre.
I think the appeal of dystopian books and movies is the notion of the dark mirror, the after-effect of a worst-case scenario. Total economic collapse, devastating war, alien invasion, global pandemic, and the like. How do people cope and then thrive in a world wrecked by something awful like that? It’s akin to driving along a highway, slowing down, and rubbernecking when you pass a car accident.
But now we have a problem. And the problem is that too many of the scenarios and speculation about dystopian futures are becoming our reality. And I don’t know about you — but I am not a fan of many of them. They are causing a great deal of harm, disempowering the masses, and too many people are too distracted to see that points of no return are passing us by.
As an author, writing works of fiction that include dystopian elements is extra…
