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Hello all,  I wanted to do a post to explain my love of the dystopian genre. When I first started reading dystopian books I grew to love them because to me the dystopian genre offered a form of escapism. It is a sub-genre of the science-fiction genre  ‘ with a heritage reaching back into ancient times, to a pre-scientific world inhabited by peoples whose myths, legends and superstitions became a way of thinking about and explaining the wonders of the universe. ’ ¹ This is according to Marshall B. Tymn in the American Studies Journal. He also states  ‘Science fiction has its beginnings as least as early as the 2nd century with a Greek named Lucian who satirized his own society through the device of an imaginary moon voyage. ’ ² While this highlights the possibility of a new literary genre it was not until 1818 with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein  which was published two years after writing it at the infamous Villa Diodati in Switzerland. Villa Diodati was rented by autho...