------------------ "Okashii na... namida ga nagareteru. Hitotsu mo kanashikunai no ni." (That's funny... my tears are falling. And I'm not sad at all.) - Quatre Raberba Winner
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I thought of Clockwork, but I'm not so sure it is distopian in nature. It uses a more present time frame for it's narritive. It was more of a character and a study of violence than a noir.
------------------ "We're just going to have a lot of work. ... Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment." ~ George W. Bush, Deer-In-The-Headlights of the United States
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Question: Would "Dune" be dystopian? I would think so to a degree.
------------------ "Okashii na... namida ga nagareteru. Hitotsu mo kanashikunai no ni." (That's funny... my tears are falling. And I'm not sad at all.) - Quatre Raberba Winner
Dune is 10000 years after thinking machines enslaved the earth and later was conquered, triggering the butlerian jihad, the cleansing of artificial intelligence. They would have a handful in the Star Wars universe...
------------------ Here lies a toppled god, His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
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Depends on who you are in it. Certainly, ten thousand years of feudalism isn't what I would call a good thing. But you never get to see much of any civilian population.
That's before Paul comes along and kicks everything over, of course.
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Hell, in that case, we should include Battlefield Earth.
Let the shuddering begin.
------------------ "We're just going to have a lot of work. ... Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment." ~ George W. Bush, Deer-In-The-Headlights of the United States
Sol: Well I think the rule of the Padishah Emperors from House Corrino all those thousand years up until Paul would seem like a walk in the park compared to what Leto III put them through for 4000 years to come.
------------------ Here lies a toppled god, His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
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