The Grape Vine Summer Holidays 2014 | Page 2

Welcome

Hello, Summer Holidays!

Welcome to the latest issue of the St Andrews Green Valley online magazine.

This issue all the writing is on the theme of Dystopia. No, it’s not a strange disease that you need to get a vaccination for. A dystopia is an imaginary society – usually, but not always, set in the future - where life is unpleasant or dangerous.

Here’s Wikipedia on the subject:

"……a community or society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening. Such societies appear in many artistic works, particularly in stories set in a future. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society.”