AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Either it's possible to write (and film) non-awful dystopian fiction, or "awful dystopian" is redundant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warning: political cooties] Reference

The outcome of the book, while almost overwhelmingly dystopian, is also the most fascinating perspective on the nature of humanity in a very long time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are There Any SF/F Books You Could Not Finish?] Reference

Despite my deep interest in dystopian societies, I only read 1984 this year, I have just started Brave New World and I have never read Lord of the Flies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of a literary fraud « Write Anything] Reference

I realized that he's right, it's easy to write (and think) in dystopian terms, and it's harder to be both optimistic and realistic -- or, inspiring, even -- about the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Gord Sellar] Reference

For instance, George Orwell almost called his dystopian masterpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Bad Book Blog] Reference

I've got two ideas: one of which is a dystopian, which is a very hot genre right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make It] Reference

Never Let Me Go, which I'd describe as dystopian were it not for the fact that it is set in a wholly recognisable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

It's interesting to me how goal-oriented "dystopian" science fiction can be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference

The setting would generally be classified as "dystopian", but the intent is not to depress the reader.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Half Past Human by T.J. Bass] Reference

Anderson explores the problems with "dystopian" views of Los Angeles far more eloquently than I can here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

This was the dream of the Founding Fathers, which a few communofascists now want to warp into some kind of dystopian rule-of-law nightmare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ross Hyzer: If You Want To Make An Omelette, You've Got To Torture Some Guys] Reference

So is Publisher's Weekly, as of 2/15, in an article about "dystopian".    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana Peterfreund] Reference

The dictionary describes "dystopian" as "a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Countercurrents.org] Reference

Alex de Moller on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 2: 00pm Post-apocalypse, or 'dystopian' film, has been the stuff of legend since Fritz Lang's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hecklerspray] Reference

The dystopian future resonates with current reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [justinker Diary Entry] Reference

You can draw whichever dystopian conclusion you wish, so long as it's one of the following.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's First 100 Days: A Start On Guantanamo, But Not Enough] Reference

They roam their dystopian, sink-estate wastelands like evil avatars of their own imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The ‘bovver birds’ are back] Reference

And they were red in the face, going hoarse, and it was just out of some sort of dystopian novel.    From Wordnik.com.  ['An Illegal, Immoral Order'] Reference

There is plenty of data to support this dystopian vision -- but that does not mean it will come true.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Face Of The Future] Reference

For the present moment contains both utopian and dystopian aspects which open towards conflicting futures.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

If this sounds vaguely familiar, it's because there's been a small boom in this sort of dystopian fiction lately.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rick Moody 'Takes The Inane And Makes It Sincere' In 'The Four Fingers Of Death'] Reference

I mean, yeah, some of them are nice and all, but I'm just sick of the utopian/dystopian or the feminist themes yo.    From Wordnik.com.  [rouflaquette Diary Entry] Reference

People who worry so much about privacy read too much dystopian science-fiction or live under a dictatorship. neraliu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Google Chrome: Redefining The Operating System] Reference

At least dystopian visions of the future presume that we keep advancing and advancing — just in the wrong direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Am George Jetson] Reference

Had it appeared in, say, 1999, it would have been dismissed as an overly dystopian speculation about a future US of A.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Shearer: The Katrina Bookshelf] Reference

Here the British artist, Richard Hardy creates a dystopian vision of London, where nature reclaims the urban landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Visions of the Apocalypse (VIDEO)] Reference

Some leading artificial-intelligence experts were in the audience, and they think we are racing toward a dystopian future.    From Wordnik.com.  [I, Robot] Reference

The plot rarely lets you down, and some of the writing is so lyrical that you feel you're in the dystopian, ravaged world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vampire Stories: Two New Twists On An Old Nemesis] Reference

PEARL: And they're interconnected stories, but in each one you see how this dystopian Earth has led to man's abandoning it.    From Wordnik.com.  [These Books Have Gone to the Dogs] Reference

In his dystopian Fahrenheit 451, "firemen" are hired to burn books as an indication that society has reached the absolute limit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burn after reading except on 9/11? The Koran burning debate] Reference

The video screen depicted rivers of molten lava swallowing a dystopian cityscape while red confetti came flurrying from the rafters.    From Wordnik.com.  [In concert: Rihanna at Jiffy Lube Live] Reference

This funky, rusty, dystopian vision will be instantly recognizable as a descendant of the junk-pile futurism of the "Mad Max" series.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Waterworld': It Floats] Reference

This dystopian novel takes us through an engineer's discovery of a free way to desalinate water in (seriously) water constrained future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy Bookshelf: Ten More Worth Your Time Than Super Freaky Crap] Reference

More than a few times Lawrence's movie evoked memories of last year's "Children of Men," another dystopian vision of our imperiled planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The “Legend” of Will Smith] Reference