HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-future, in which people’s reliance on technology has gone too far? If you read “The Dream Hotel”, a gripping new novel, you can discern one recipe. First, ...

The most unnerving dystopian fiction is set in a future that feels imminent. In the unnamed but New York-like city of “Hum” the water tastes like chemicals, and the air feels hot and eye-stingingly ...

In his 19th novel, ‘What We Can Know,’ the ‘Atonement’ writer looks back on our era from the distant future—with bemusement.

Tracker has become one of the most successful modern procedurals, and its unique premise - of a reward seeker tracking down missing people and items - has a lot to do with that. That unique premise ...