H.G Wells - The Time

Machine: 1895

H.G Wells - The War of

The Worlds: 1897

Yevgeny Zamyatin -

We: 1924

Dystopian Literature Timeline

Aldous Huxley - Brave New

World: 1932

Ayn Rand - Anthem:

1938

George Orwell -

Animal Farm:

1945

George Orwell - 1984:

1948

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit

451: 1953

Anthony Burgess - A

Clockwork Orange:

1962

Phillip K. Dick - Do

Androids Dream of

Electric Sheep?: 1968

Russel Hoban - Riddley

Walker: 1980

Margaret Atwood -

The Handmaid’s Tale:

1985

P.D. James -

The Children

of Men:

1992

Margaret Atwood

- Oryx and Crake:

2003

Kazuo Ishiguro -

Never Let Me Go:

2005

Cormac McCarthy -

The Road: 2006

Suzanne Collins -

The Hunger

Games: 2008

1914: WWI– First industrial-

ised war and use of chemical

weapons by Germany. Political

Dysopia

1917: Russian Revolution–

inspires totalitarian fiction +

1925: rise of fascism in Italy.

Political dystopia

1945: The first us of the atomic

bomb and nuclear weapons

1949: The first real computer is made in

the UK giving rise to more technological

dystopias

1981: AIDS was first discovered in the USA.

Medical dystopia

2001: 9/11 one of the biggest

terrorist attacks in history.