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Dystopia vs. Utopia: A Fight to the Finish

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Creator
Dystopia
Utopia
Creator

George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
(this one is both, really.)
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Island
Aldous Huxley

George Orwell
Animal Farm
Utopia
Sir Thomas More

Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
The Republic
Plato

Charlie Brooker
Black Mirror
Erewhon
Samuel Butler

Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Koushun Takami et al
Battle Royale
Aria
Kozue Amano

Sam Esmail
Mr. Robot
Woman on the Edge of Time
Marge Piercy

Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange
New Atlantis
Sir Francis Bacon

Nancy Farmer
The House of the Scorpion
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Francois Rabelais

Veronica Roth
Divergent
The Blazing World
Margaret Cavendish

James Dashner
The Maze Runner
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe

Lauren Oliver
Delirium
Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy

H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
A Modern Utopia
H. G. Wells

Mike Judge
Idiocracy
Walden Too
B. F. Skinner

Ridley Scott
Blade Runner
For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs
Robert Heinlein

Andrew Stanton
Wall-E
Blue Lagoon
Randal Kleiser

E. M. Forster
The Machine Stops
The Dispossessed
Ursula Le Guin

Yevgeny Zamyatin
We 
Ecotopia
Ernest Callenbach

Frank Darabont et al
The Walking Dead
Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan
Ibn-Tufayl

Franz Kafka
The Trial
Voyage from Yesteryear
James P. Hogan

Sinclair Lewis
It Can't Happen Here
Pacific Edge
Kim Stanley Robinson

Ayn Rand
Anthem
The Fifth Sacred Thing
Starhawk

Terry Gilliam
Brazil
Our Daily Bread
King Vidor

Jean-Pierre Jeunet
City of Lost Children
Super
Vitarka Mudrā

Arthur Koestler
Darkness at Noon
Meet the Robinsons
Disney Animation

Fritz Lang
Metropolis
The Shape of Things to Come
H.G. Wells

Neill Blomkamp
District 9
Lost Horizon
Frank Capra

Kurt Vonnegut
Player Piano



Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451



The Wachowskis
The Matrix



Evelyn Waugh
Love Among the Ruins



Robert Longo
Johnny Mnemonic



Geoff Murphy
Freejack



Luc Besson
The Fifth Element



William Golding
Lord of the Flies



Alex Proyas
Dark City



Arthur P. Jacobs
Planet of the Apes



Danny Cannon
Judge Dredd



Alfonso Cuarón
Children of Men



Paul Verhoeven et al
Robocop



Neill Blomkamp
Elysium



Andrew Niccol
Gattaca



David Cronenberg
eXistenZ



Jack London
The Iron Heel



Richard Kelly
Southland Tales



Kevin Reynolds
Waterworld



Stephen King et al
The Running Man



Rian Johnson
Looper



Alan Moore
Watchmen



Douglas Trumbull
Silent Running



Francis Lawrence et al
I Am Legend



Arthur C. Clarke
The City and the Stars



Michael Bay
The Island



James Cameron
The Terminator



Terry Gilliam
12 Monkeys



Bong Joon-ho
Snowpiercer



Paul Verhoeven et al
Total Recall



Peter Chung et al
Aeon Flux



Richard Fleischer
Soylent Green



The Wachowskis
V for Vendetta



Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game



Rachel Talalay
Tank Girl



George Miller
Mad Max series



Philip K. Dick
Minority Report



William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
Logan's Run
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Man, Guy