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As the recent success of Margaret Atwood´s novel-turned-television hit Handmaid´s Tale shows us, dystopia is more than minatory fantasy; it offers a critical lens upon the present. Global Dystopias engages the familiar horrors of George Orwell´s 1984 alongside new work by China Miéville, Tananarive Due, and Maria Dahvana Headley. In "Don´ t Press Charges, and I Won´ t Sue," award-winning writer Charlie Jane Anders uses popularized stigmas toward transgender people to create a not-so-distant future in which conversion therapy is not only normalized, but funded by the government. Henry Farrell surveys the work of dystopian forebear Philip K. Dick and argues that distinctions between the present and the possible future aren´ t always that clear. Contributors also include Margaret Atwood and award-winning speculative writer, Nalo Hopkinson.

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Junot Diaz is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the short story collections Drown and This Is How You Lose Her. Associate Professor in the Writing and Humanistic Studies Program at MIT, he is fiction editor of Boston Review.

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