Re:Four Kinds of Dystopia
by nn3 on Saturday February 11, 2017 @12:28PM
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If it doesn't have to be written by Dick, the canonical work would be Stanislaw Lem's The futurological Congress
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) is (loosely) based on that and also fits the dystopia description.
It's not clear to me that this form of dystopia is really all that distinct from the Huxleyan one-- the virtuality is just a more effective soma.
Re:Four Kinds of Dystopia
by lobster_johnson on Saturday February 11, 2017 @07:47PM
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"Loosely", ha. I would argue only thing they share is the one word in the title.
It's a great book. It's interesting (in the context of this discussion) that it's a satiric dystopia in which the main character spends most of the book in a drug-induced dream about being in a future utopia that turns out to be a Huxleyian dystopia that's even worse than the present day.
How on earth could I have completely missed this movie. I just watched it, and as movies go, it was very good.