Dystopian novels became a huge craze with books like The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Maze Runner. It’s easy to get ...

Actor Lorne Greene in a production of "1984," from the book by George Orwell, on the CBS anthology series Studio One, circa 1953. For decades, writers have conjured nightmare worlds to terrify ...

Note: This essay on the Hunger Games phenomenon and the rise and fall of YA dystopias was originally published in 2021. It has been updated and republished due to the 2023 release of the prequel movie ...

What started as a school assignment quickly developed into a passion for Margeaux Nall, a Fort Madison teen with a taste for science fiction and fantasy and a strong imagination of her own. Her first ...