In a land whose ideal of success is often call “ the American dream , ” there are plenty of nightmares too . The United States has its own particular brand of dystopia , full of spiritual thuggery , form warfare , and the apparition of slavery . Here are ten of the greatest dystopian stories ever created about America .
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1 . Neuromancer
William Gibson ’s 1984 novel revolutionize scientific discipline fabrication and popularized the subgenre of cyber-terrorist . What truly blow readers away was Gibson ’s vision of a future where governments have crumbled and multinational corporation harness the Earth from orbital mansions . This same worldview was realized in optical form in Ridley Scott ’s Blade Runner , based on a Philip K. Dick novel , which solidify in many audience ’s mind the idea that America ’s hereafter would be a contaminated , corporate - controlled urban sprawl .
Why is this an American dystopia ?
In the United States , there are less political science checks on corporate power than in many other developed Carry Amelia Moore Nation . Many of our nightmares are fuel by the idea that there will be a runaway exponent grab by corporations .
2 . Gamer
This cult flick from the same team who convey you the Crank movies is a burning vision of an America where everybody has become a mind - controlled gaming addict . Everybody plays MMOs where they pay up to verify the bodies of other people , instead of avatars in a gameworld . The human avatars are forced to do everything from compete in warfare game to the death , to have sex with whomever their controller want . Like The Matrix serial , Gamer involve brain implant that turn humans into pawns in somebody else ’s plot – but instead of AIs controlling us , in Gamer we get a more naturalistic mental picture of gaming corporations controlling our minds so we can have “ more play . ”
It ’s about America ’s sprawl amusement - industrial complex worming its direction into our minds and taking away our freewill .
3 . Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents
These linked novels by Octavia Butler are about what happen after an economical apocalypse leaves the US government break and powerless . Without a centralized politics , various region in the nation fall to gangs . Meanwhile , religious militias fix up “ reeducation camps ” for citizenry who refuse to swear allegiance to Jesus . Our independent lineament , some of whom have been born with mysterious psychic powers , are assail up and tortured before the commonwealth slowly comes back together again .
Set in various regions of California , it is powerfully influenced by fearfulness about late American ceding back ( in the nineties , when these books were publish ) as well as the rise of the religious right .
4 . The Handmaid ’s Tale
Margaret Atwood ’s eighties novel , which later became an excellent film , is about what would take place in the wake of two disaster : irradiation chance event render most women unfertile , and a religious , ripe - fender government takes over the population . As a result , women lose all their civil rightfulness , and fat women are given to infertile twain to bear the children of the household patriarchs .
It combines a fear of American right - wing religious group with a fear of American atomic world power .
5 . Julian Comstock : A Tale of 22nd Century America
Robert Charles Wilson’ssprawling , unbelievable novelis about how North America slowly recover from an economical and Department of Energy Revelation of Saint John the Divine that have left the region that were once the US and Canada languishing in an other - nineteenth century level of engineering . The country has also reinstituted slavery . After winning a polite warfare , a group of scrappy soldier and Darwinians fight to reform the spiritual government whose plate base is in New York City .
Though many Carry Nation produce fantasies about how peak petroleum and economical collapse will destruct civilisation , Wilson ( a Canadian ) gives a specifically American gloss to this dystopia by pull in slavery and American religious politics .
https://gizmodo.com/22nd-century-darwinians-challenge-the-church-in-julian-5273064
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muEnLlycOn4
6 . Planet of the Apes
A group of all - American astronauts encounter themselves the victims of a quad - time situation that leave them stranded on Earth millions of age in the future . ( See io9’stimeline explaining how all the satellite picture and TV serial publication fit together . ) imitator have become the predominant well-informed coinage , and Homo sapiens are just dim science lab animals .
If the far-famed image of the destruct Statue of Liberty at the close of Planet of the Apes did n’t give it out , maybe the other movies in the serial will . essentially the original movie bike , made during the late 1960s and other 70s , are a fantastical retelling of the U.S. Civil Rights movement ( the newfangled picture show , Rise of the Planet of the Apes , also explores this musical theme ) , with the ape in the role of persecute minority groups . Are these picture about how humans get what they merit for enslave animals ? Or are they about how oppressed animals will demolish the world when they in the end gain power ? You decide .
https://gizmodo.com/planet-of-the-apes-a-timeline-and-an-explanation-5827029
7 . Jericho
This video series , about a serial of atomic approach that leave behind the U.S. in a disconnected commonwealth of chaos , offer a naturalistic look at what post - atomic dystopia would really be like . or else of zombie sport running everywhere ala walk Dead , we are treat to war towns in Kansas , malevolent fragment of the remaining military infrastructure , and the horror of life without high technology .
Set in the American heartland , it ’s basically about what would pass if you had all the bad part of American small townsfolk animation , untempered by any kind of Union supervision . Plus , nukes .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZppWok6SX88
8 . Gattaca
This lustrous , high - technical school cosmos is decree by people whose genome are deemed the most fit . Created by Andrew Niccol , who has written and direct some of the greatest American dystopian movies out there — from In Time to The Truman Show — this movie is about what happens when a biotechnocratic government controls our every move .
shoot in various parts of California , the motion-picture show is about how Americans justify class variance using science – a long tradition in this land , go back to eugenics advocator in the 1920s and 30s .
9 . Wall - eastward
The Earth has become so polluted that nothing is left on its control surface but vast garbage dumps — and the only creatures who hold up here are a refuse golem name Wall - E and his cockroach companion . human all live in pampered , consumerist sumptuousness on space stations where they do nothing but wreak with computers and guzzle brownie trill .
It combines draw a direct connection between American consumer civilization and the dying of Earth from pollution and climate change .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgssLmsOa2s
10 . The Hunger Games
This trilogy of novels by Suzanne Collins , soon to be a serial of feature film films , combine the most frightening expression of Gamer and Julian Comstock . America has become an indigent , resource - depleted country called Panem where most citizenry lust on governing rations and a few lucky elite hold out like royal family in the Capitol . Every year , a handful of young people are chosen to vie to the death in a televised ritual call The Hunger Games .
Set in what was once US territory , it is about our fear of economical collapse combined with a terror of how reality television can be used as a form of propaganda and torture .
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