Author Harry Harrison claimed, “The idea came from an Indian I met after the war in 1946. The book jumps to several people living their crisis-shortages lives, with the wealthy hording the resources. And “Soylent Green” is one of them bringing the idea that we will be cannibals of sorts by 2022.Ī science fiction book, Make Room, Make Room by the late, great Harry Harrison kicked this one off, published as a book in November 1966 (it was originally serialized in Impulse Magazine.) It was set in New York City, population 35 million with the global population is seven billion people, plagued with overcrowding, resource shortages and a crumbling infrastructure, set safely in “way off” 1999. For example, The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich.
I have noticed through the decades that books and movies like to predict the arrival of the bad-topia and they are usually well off their estimation – says me – who has lived through the initial guesses and the predicted dates of many ideas, books and films. A recent poll collected from the so-called “younger generation” believes that our world will turn into an inevitable “dystopia.” Such mess is a usual subject of science fiction.Ģ022? It’s here! Science Fiction usually has a bad time predicting bad times. One of the “topias,” and the opposite of utopia is the definition of dystopia – “an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.” We hear that a lot. “Make Room, Make Room” to “Soylent Green”ĭystopia.
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