{"product_id":"9781946511072","title":"Global Dystopias","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the recent success of Margaret Atwood's novel-turned-television hit \u003ci\u003eHandmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e shows us, dystopia is more than minatory fantasy; it offers a critical lens upon the present. \"It is not only a kind of vocabulary and idiom,\" says bestselling author and volume editor Junot Diaz. \"It is a useful arena in which to begin to think about who we are becoming.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together some of the most prominent writers of science fiction and introducing fresh talent, this collection of stories, essays, and interviews explores global dystopias in apocalyptic landscapes and tech futures, in robot sentience and forever war. \u003ci\u003eGlobal Dystopias\u003c\/i\u003e engages the familiar horrors of George Orwell's \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e alongside new work by China Miéville, Tananarive Due, and Maria Dahvana Headley. In \"Don't Press Charges, and I Won't Sue,\" award-winning writer Charlie Jane Anders uses popularized stigmas toward transgender people to create a not-so-distant future in which conversion therapy is not only normalized, but funded by the government. Henry Farrell surveys the work of dystopian forebear Philip K. Dick and argues that distinctions between the present and the possible future aren't always that clear. Contributors also include Margaret Atwood and award-winning speculative writer, Nalo Hopkinson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the era of Trump, resurgent populism, and climate denial, this collection poses vital questions about politics and civic responsibility and subjectivity itself. If we have, as Díaz says, reached peak dystopia, then \u003ci\u003eGlobal Dystopias\u003c\/i\u003e might just be the handbook we need to survive it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003eCharlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, Maria Dahvana Headley, Nalo Hopkinson, Maureen McHugh, China Miéville, Alex Rivera, Jordy Rosenberg\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151851438320,"sku":"9781946511072","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781946511072_p0.jpg?v=1763799576","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781946511072","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}