Dystopia

And the second book comes out in a couple months, two months, because it's a duology.

And I have been reading, I think it's just because of the hellscape that we are living in, but I've been reading a lot of Dystopian.

Yeah.

Because, like, why not? Yeah.

It doesn't need to be drastically different.

I know my friend Heather Carson, who was on the show, she was writing Dystopia and Post-Apocalyptic.

And then she switched to Shifter Romance and she just added a middle initial K to her name.

And that was her separate pen name so that people could distinguish which version they were picking up.

might have that's frank grillo for you all right here's this It's the Filmstack Checklist.

Dystopic? Check.

Thought-provoking? Check.

One too many freaky robot dollhead things? Check.

Hello and welcome to I Used to Like This One, the show where we take a look back at movies we remember fondly from our childhood and attempt to look past the nostalgia to see if they still hold up.

My name is Sean Wells, and with me this week to continue our Welcome to Dystopia month is the sheet of paper to my jar of dirt.

Hello, I'm Aaron Knowles, and I'm a fluke of evolution.

I mean, I originally had gills to my webbed toes, but I mean, you named this meeting paper.

Anywhere you listen to music.

Oh boy, Aaron.

One more Welcome to Dystopia Month movie left.

And so we're going from seeing what happens when the environment fucks us over.

Because fairy tale retellings were, like, in at the time.

You know how books go through different things? Like, Dystopian is in now, and then witches are in now, whatever.

Yeah.

And...

I was like, I really don't know if there's an audience for this.

And it happened to kind of coincide with this big comeback of Dystopian, which has been really cool.

But I think Bones has been successful mostly because it is unique.

And I had moments where I was like, should I try to like, really force this more into specific categories or should I write it more marketable to a wider audience and then I just kept coming back to it and I was like I don't want to like I want to write it the way I want to write it and I want it to be heavily focused on mental health and I want it to be dystopian because I love dystopian and I think readers can tell if you're writing something that is like what you want to read yes

There's a great scene in 1984.

This is Orwell's Dystopia.

And they're interviewing this guy Winston, and they're trying to get him to admit that two plus two is five.

This is the essence of political correctness in a nutshell.

Felix I.D. DiMero's newest book, Braindead Girls, just dropped on August 26th.

It's a story in his Days of Dystopia universe, centered around tech mogul Leonard Prince, who has developed an AI personal assistant slash therapist slash friend named Maya, who Leonard has fallen in love with.

And Maya needs a body, prompting Leonard to track down suitable candidates to download Maya into.

Felix and I discuss the specter of AI, alienation in a tech-heavy world, and what is in store for his days of dystopia world.

Is that, I know you have a little bit at the end where kind of the pleas for reviews because if people aren't interested in seeing more from this world, you're not going to, it doesn't make sense for you to write it.

Do you have a lot more planned in this sort of days of dystopia world? I know you're kind of coming from like a more horror background and you've been doing a little bit more dystopian sci-fi in the last little bit.

Now, Days of Dystopia is a collection of stories that aren't always related.

So I have a bunch of Days of Dystopia stories coming, but they won't all be connected.