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Akhter, Tawhida – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Literature has been an imitator of life for generations on this earth, this literature has voiced the voiceless. Recent contemporary and postmodern literary theories have catered to burgeoning notions of logic that go beyond human survival on the planet. Science fiction is a genre of fiction that encompasses imaginative concepts like futuristic…
Descriptors: Novels, Futures (of Society), Science Fiction, COVID-19
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Dunn, Thomas P.; Erlich, Richard D. – Journal of General Education, 1981
Uses the metaphor of the beehive as a well-ordered, each-in-his-own-niche society to represent the outcome of utopian thinking. Cites twentieth-century dystopia films and literature as explicit criticisms of overreliance on planning and technology. Examines "Star Wars,""Clockwork Orange," and the works of Huxley, Forster,…
Descriptors: Automation, Fantasy, Films, Futures (of Society)