Top Ten Tuesday: Villains You Love to Hate
Credit to BrokeandtheBookish.com for the meme. Nafiza (This is Mogambo, my favourite Bollywood villain played by the late Amrish Puri) So can you tell that I love this topic? I […]
Tag Archives: dystopia
Speculative Fiction: Androids and the Prometheus Myth
One of the most interesting and fun Speculative Fiction tropes is the playfulness, which can be terrifying at times, with which the genre tackles the myth of Prometheus. Prometheus, a […]
Back to School… or not?: Education after the Apocalypse and in the Dystopia
As a dystopia and speculative literature lover and critic I get asked a lot why kids like these kinds of incredibly bleak books (which I don’t really think are all that bleak, […]
Graphic Novels Genesis and Power: Who watches the Watchmen?
This month is graphic novels month, which I am very very excited for! Though I am not as much an aficionado of graphic novels as Yash, nor an online […]
Romance or Dystopia? A Rumination…
War. Death. Despair. Oppression. Environmental ruin and… Romance? When it comes to demoralizing literature, dystopian novels have it all, and that’s why we love them! However, more recently, as in […]
Food in Utopia and Dystopia: A-Musing
Food. It’s just one of those things that is either taken for granted, or isn’t. It is a basic necessity, at the very bottom of Maslow’s triangle (with water and […]
How To Survive at the End of the World
I have been reading a lot of immediate post apocalyptic novels of late, for reviewing, for comparative reasons and because, well, that’s what I do. I’m not saying that these […]
Sunday Fun Day: What are you reading?
What are you reading? Hello blogosphere, we thought – since we are a book blog – we should let you all know what books we are reading! We read a […]
Dystopia – a list!
Hello all! This is it! This is the end of November and therefore the end of dystopia month. There is so much more to talk about but I thought I’d […]
The Importance of Motivation: Why the Giver sent Jonas to his doom
NOTE** this is a guest post I wrote for Rate Your Story an awesome blog for aspiring writers :) I sat down and read Lois Lowry’s Newbery award winning The Giver […]
The Book Wars 