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This novel of a post-literate, dystopian world is set in a village on the shores of Lake Superior.
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The Know, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
Though the Baby Driver director offered the Chad Powers star the lead role, the duo had to wait for an official green light from King, who penned the 1982 dystopian thriller novel on which the film is based.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2025
Dallas City Hall, the brutalist-style building that once doubled as a dystopian corporate headquarters in the 1987 sci-fi cult classic RoboCop, is hurting.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
When dystopian fiction gets a little too real.
—Literary Hub, 11 Oct. 2025
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The Know, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
Though the Baby Driver director offered the Chad Powers star the lead role, the duo had to wait for an official green light from King, who penned the 1982 dystopian thriller novel on which the film is based.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2025
Dallas City Hall, the brutalist-style building that once doubled as a dystopian corporate headquarters in the 1987 sci-fi cult classic RoboCop, is hurting.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
When dystopian fiction gets a little too real.
—Literary Hub, 11 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dystopian
earthly
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In early Christian thinking, its connotations of languor and listlessness, within the spirit no less than the body, lent it the status of a sin—a turning aside from God for the sake of earthly sorrow.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Ordinary matter makes up everything from the cosmic (planets and stars) to the earthly (people and trees).—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Dystopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dystopian. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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