7 best short stories – Dystopia

Dystopian fiction- sometimes combined with, but distinct from apocalyptic literature – is the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author’s ethos.
The critic August Nemo selected seven classic tales of dystopian scenarios.

– The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
– The Answer by H. Beam Piper
– The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel
– The Empire of the Ants by H.G. Wells
– In The Year 2889 by Jules Verne
– The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
– Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!