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1 What Makes a Good YA Dystopian Novel? April Spisak , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , May/June vol. 88 no. 3 2012; (p. 55-60) Dystopias are characterized as a society that is a counter-utopia, a repressed, controlled, restricted system with multiple social controls put into place via government, military, or powerful authority figures. Issues of surveillance and invasive technologies are often key, as is a constant emphasis that this is not a place where you'd want to live. This article discusses this definition in relation to young adult fiction.
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