That Just Happened!

Yay!  I won!  Thanks to Lenore at Presenting Lenore I will be the proud recipient of her Dystopian February Prize Pack.  All I had to do was fill out a little survey about dystopian fiction and boom!  I will be receiving ”Restoring Harmony”, “The Line”, “Incarceron” and “The Other Side of the Island”, compliments of Penguin books. 

Dystopian fiction is a genre that deals with an imperfect future world, where people are repressed due to war, hunger, plague, genetic mutations, etc.  Most commonly found in science fiction works like “Oryx and Crake” by Margaret Atwood and “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy would be great examples (and are both excellent books, I highly recommend them.)  Often, both utopic and dystopic societies exist in these books and it is a struggle to achieve balance between them.  This genre is used to hold a magnifying glass up to issues currently facing us and explores the potential outcomes of our actions today.  You can visit the Wikipedia page  to learn more about this genre.  Once again, thank you to Lenore, I look forward to reading more literature in this genre.