Looking at a simple idea of this topic, reducing it to What if...?

1. UTOPIA VS
DYSTOPIA
P E R F E C T W O R L D S V S I M P E R F E C T W O R L D S
T H E D I F F E R E N T T Y P E S O F S P E C U L AT I V E F I C T I O N

2. WHAT DOES IT MEAN
TO SPECULATE?
Here speculate means
“to try to make money in different ways
which may be risky”
We’re not talking about this now.
It can mean to ask
What if….?
What if the government
stopped the emotion of
love?
What if there was no
crime?
You are speculating
about possibilities

3. WHAT IF… YOU COULD CREATE
A PERFECT WORLD?
• Where would it be?
• Could everyone go there?
• How would it be like our world?
• How would it be different to our world?

4. WHAT IF… OUR LEADERS/ GOVERNMENTS
CONTROLLED US?
• How would they could control us?
• Would people allow this control?
• What might be the effects of these
control (good and bad)?

5. WHAT IF ….MUCH OF THE WORLD
WAS DESTROYED?
• What would happen to destroy much of it?
• What countries would be affected?
• Would other countries be affected in some
way?
• How would the survivors live on?

6. WHAT IF… YOU COULD
CHANGE HISTORY?
• What event would you change?
• What would you change about the event?
• Would your change make the future better or
worse?
• Would you show what happened after you
changed it?

7. WHAT IF…TECHNOLOGY COULD
CHANGE LIFE
• Which technology would you choose
• What would it do for humans?
• What would be some of the effects (good and bad) of doing this?
• Would people want this?

8. WHAT IF…. THERE WERE SCARY
THINGS OUT THERE?
• What would they be like?
• What would they be able to do?
• What would stop them?

9. OVERLAPS
Where does
dystopian
fiction fit into
this diagram?
What about
apocalyptic
fiction?