In honor of the disbanding of VertigoComics, here are 40 fictional dystopias, ranked by their livability--including the world of Spider Jerusalem's 'Transmetropolitan.' RIPVertigo Vertigo
, they’re all milking that sweet dystopian teat to tell teenage romance stories set against ill-explained sci-fi backgrounds.
Pondering all those dystopias, though, got us to thinking—which of these fractured futures is actually the most pleasant or most horrible to live in for a? They’re all challenging and dangerous for the heroes of their stories … fiction, after all, doesn’t work without conflict. But to average, salt-of-the-earth folks, these dystopias vary wildly in how tolerable they actually are. Some are sadistic places where you wouldn’t be able to expect to live for more than a day.
galaxy isn’t a dystopia, even if it’s being more or less ruled by the Empire. The dystopias in this list are more contained.For it to be a dystopia, there needs to be people. If the world has been scourged by say, nuclear war, and we’re left with a wasteland, that’s an entirely separate setting, that of post-apocalyptic fiction. Dystopias are about the degradation of societies, which no longer exist in post-apocalyptic works.
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