Critics of dystopian and fantasy literature

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Brian Attebery

Strategies of Fantasy - Fantasy is a violation of the truth of the real world, using a simple narrative structure to let the reader reflect on theirs

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Margaret Atwood

Ustopia is a word I made up by combining utopia and dystopia - the imagined perfect society and its opposite because, in my view, each contains a latent version of the others

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Tom Moylan

the utopian impulse is the desire for social reform which can be seen in the protagonist of dystopian novels as well as the reader

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Rosemary Jackson

Fantasy: the literature of subversion. Dissolves space and time. Has key themes. Explores the unconscious drive

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Ursula Le Guin

to extrapolate imaginatively from current trends and events to a near future that's half prediction, half satire

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M. Keith Booker

Familiarisation highlights social issues, dystopia is a nightmare version of the utopian dream, "I wish to underscore the role of dystopian fiction as social criticism"
"by focusing their critiques of society on spatially or temporally distant settings, dystopian fictions provide fresh perspectives on problematic social and political practices"

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