Utopian and dystopian fiction | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:01:07 1 Subgenres
00:01:17 1.1 Utopian fiction
00:02:49 1.2 Dystopian fiction
00:05:59 2 History of dystopian fiction
00:10:19 2.1 Combinations
00:12:31 2.2 Ecotopian fiction
00:14:55 2.3 Feminist utopias
00:19:06 3 Cultural impact



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Utopia and dystopia are genres of speculative fiction that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction portrays the setting that agrees with the author's ethos, having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to readers. Dystopian fiction (sometimes combined with, but distinct from apocalyptic literature) is the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos. Many novels combine both, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take, depending on its choices, ending up with one of two possible futures. Both utopias and dystopias are commonly found in science fiction and other speculative fiction genres, and arguably are by definition a type of speculative fiction.
More than 400 utopian works were published prior to the year 1900 in the English language alone, with more than a thousand others during the twentieth century.