Fifty years ago this week, Kurt Vonnegut published the dystopian classic “Slaughterhouse-Five.” With everything that’s going on in the world, it’s easy to feel as though we’re living in a dystopia ...

“Other worlds” can transport us—and teach us a lesson about issues in our own. The interior of a space colony, designed by a NASA space artist. Credit: Illustrated by Don Davis/NASA Ames Research ...

THE 20th century produced two great British dystopias. The more famous one is 1984, George Orwell’s tale of a world unified into a handful of warring blocs run by dictators. The other, Brave New World ...