List of Spanish Dystopias
Diana Q Palardy
8/13/2017
I have created below a list of Spanish dystopias (according to my criteria for dystopias) and distopinas, a term that Miquel Codony uses to describe works that have “esa sustancia elusiva que condensa en sus moléculas la esencia de la distopía” (that elusive substance that condenses in its molecules the essence of dystopia). I have included works of fiction (including novels, short stories, films, plays and even one poetry collection) which either a literary critic, a publishing house, a journalist, a science fiction scholar/specialist, or I myself have labeled as adystopia. Since there is considerable debate as to what technically qualifies as a dystopia and I have not read or seen all of the works included, I have erred on the side of inclusiveness in compiling this list. The works span from 1879, when “El futuro dictador” by José Fernández Bremón was published,* until 2018, with the publication of Los cinco estigmas del éter by Antonio César Murón. In the list, the default genre for each title listed is narrative (novels or short stories), unless noted otherwise in parentheses after the title. For anthologies and collections, each short story is listed separately when I am able to offer specific information about it; otherwise, the entire anthology/collection is listed. It is important to note that no bibliography is perfect and I would greatly appreciate comments at spanishdystopias@gmail.com, especially regarding suggestions for additions, deletions and corrections. The database is a work in progress and it will continue to be updated and modified over time.
* It should be noted that originally, it was assumed that “El mundo sin vicios” by Cándido María Trigueros was the first Spanish dystopia; however, Elena de Lorenzo Álvarez argues that it was actually a translation of a story from a different country. See: https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2014.962911.
Number | Year | Title | Author | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1879 | "El futuro dictador" in El crimen de ayer y otros cuentos | Fernández Bremón, José | Borderline dystopia (a plutocracy) in which a regime is ruled by a multimillionaire. |
2 | 1886 | "Cuento futuro" - first in La opinión and then in El señor y lo demás, son cuentos in 1893 | Alas, Leopoldo (pseudonym Clarín) | comical, farcical dystopia |
3 | 1902 | "Un drama en el siglo XXI" in De la luna a mecanópolis , Nil Santiáñez-Tió, ed. | Millán, Camilo | First extensive Spanish dystopia, according to Mariano Martín Rodríguez; light-hearted, anti-capitalist |
4 | 1902 | Amoría | Lorenzo, Anselmo | |
5 | 1908 | "Cuento absurdo" in Los buitres | Vicente, Angeles | |
6 | 1909 | Sentimental Club | Pérez de Ayala, Ramón | precursor to modern dystopia; against collectivism; patriarchal nostalgia |
7 | 1911 | "La coronada villa tentacular" in Del presente, del pasado y del futuro | Gener, Pompeyo | |
8 | 1912 | "La verdad en la ilusión" In Cuentos futuristas (2000), Francisco Arellano, ed. | Olmet, Luis Antón del | has been called a precursor to Woody Allen's Sleeper |
9 | 1913 | "Mecanópolis" in De la luna a mecanópolis, Nil Santiáñez-Tió, ed. | Unamuno, Miguel de | |
10 | 1919 | "Un país extraño" in Blanco y negro | Calvo Roselló, Miguel A. | against technology; like 1984; reaction to Soviet Union; vigilance |
11 | 1922 | "El misterioso asesino de Potestad" | Porras, Antonio | political intrigue; a totalitarian, technologically advanced dystopia |
12 | 1922 | El paraíso de las mujeres | Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente | A shipwrecked man ends up on an island dominated by tiny women, basically Lilliputians from Gulliver's Travels, but 2 centuries later. |
13 | 1923 | Cinelandia | Gómez de la Serna, Ramón | |
14 | 1923 | El archipiélago maravilloso. Aventuras fantasmagóricas | Araquistáin, Luis | matriarchal dictatorship on an island; immortality is a curse; men are used only for sex |
15 | 1924 | El tratado de Heligoland | Bravo, Julio | anti-communist parable; criticism of Bolsheviks |
16 | 1925 | La jirafa sagrada | Madariaga, Salvador de | |
17 | 1926 | Náufragos | del Valle, Adrián | |
18 | 1929 | "En la caverna encantada" | Salaverría, José María | lost race dystopia |
19 | 1930 | Millones entre redes | Valverde Gil, Antonio | economic dystopia (perhaps a precursor to what is happening now) |
20 | 1932 | El amor dentro de 200 años | Martínez Rizo, Alfonso | pro-anarchism, open sexual relationships, leans more utopian than dystopian |
21 | 1932 | Del éxodo al paraíso | Valentí, Salvio | shortcomings of libertarian communism |
22 | 1932 | La ciudad que no tenía mujeres | Pérez de Olaguer, Antonio | |
23 | 1935 | La isla de la Paz | Mesa Ramos, José | |
24 | 1942 | El dorado | Baroja, Ricardo | lost race dystopia |
25 | 1950 | La bomba increíble | Salinas, Pedro | considered a dystopian classic by many Spanish sci-fi scholars |
26 | 1950 | "Futurama" in Antología de los Borrases | Borrás, Tomás | |
27 | 1958 | El futuro ha comenzado | Rojas, Carlos | |
28 | 1965 | Construcción 53 | García-Viñó, M. | |
29 | 1967 | "Asfalto" in Un mundo sin luz | Buiza, Carlos | |
30 | 1967 | La guerra de los dos mil años | García Pavón, F. | |
31 | 1969 | "3 mitos en nuevos odres" in Antología de novelas de anticipación. Novena selección. | Atienza, J.G. | |
32 | 1969 | "¿Dónde hay espacio?" in Antología de novelas de anticipación. Novena selección . | García Lecha, L. | |
33 | 1969 | "Limpio, sano y justiciero" in Antología de novelas de anticipación. Novena selección. | Atienza, J.G. | |
34 | 1969 | Parábola del náufrago | Delibes, Miguel | dictatorship, vigilance, city vs. countryside; hedge grows uncontrollably |
35 | 1969 | Las máquinas | Jarnés, E. | |
36 | 1969 | La ciudad sin hombres | Franco, Jesús | The leader of an all-female region wants to dominate the world. |
37 | 1970 | "Cuando solo resta la muerte" in Nueva dimensión 14 | Vigil, Luis | |
38 | 1971 | El hombre y la mosca (play) | Ruibal, José | dictatorship, vigilance, violence, pain, theater of the absurd; 2 men in a dome |
39 | 1972 | "Notas del juicio de un elemento subversivo" in Antología social de ciencia ficción, Carlos Buiza, ed. | Vigil, Luis | An old hippy is being tried by a robot judge and he is declared guilty of not spending enough money in his society obsessed with consumerism. The society is polluted, everyone is known as an "unidad económica" with a number. |
40 | 1972 | "Visite España año 2000" in A ntología de novelas de anticipación XVII | Alvarez Villar, Alfonso | |
41 | 1972 | "Los chupópteros" in Antología de novelas de anticipación XVII | Lezcano, Francisco | |
42 | 1973 | El contrabandista de pájaros | Burgos, Antonio | |
43 | 1973 | La Tecnarquía | Campanna, Pablo | |
44 | 1974 | La fundación | Buero Vallejo, Antonio | |
45 | 1974 | Los papeles de Ludwig Jäger | Ferrer-Vidal, Jorge | |
46 | 1974 | Narraciones españolas de ciencia ficción (anthology) | ||
47 | 1974 | Burocracia y tecnocracia | García-Pelayo, M. | |
48 | 1974 | Escuela de mandarines | Espinosa, Miguel | well-known dystopia to Spanish sci-fi scholars; "negative utopia of fascist Spain" (Espinosa) |
49 | 1975 | Largo retorno | Lazaga, Pedro | A woman has a serious disease and gets cryogenically frozen so that she can wake up when they have found a cure and be reunited with her partner. It doesn't work out as they planned. |
50 | 1975 | Paraíso final | Plans, J.J. | |
51 | 1976 | Último deseo | Klimovsky, León | Described by Nicholas Schlegel as the Spanish "Omega Man" meets "Eyes Wide Shut". A group of rich businessmen are partying in a castle, a nuclear bomb explodes, everyone is blind in nearby villages. There's a group called "The People Who Owned the Dark." |
52 | 1976 | Memorias de un futuro bárbaro | Julió, Montserrat | migration, depopulation, wastelands, gender, post-apocalypse, overdevelopment (originally in Catalan) |
53 | 1978 | "La última lección sobre Cisneros" | Bermúdez, Gabriel | Post-Francoism dystopian Spain |
54 | 1980 | Laetius | Els Joglars | |
55 | 1980 | Zero Weather: A Future Fantasy | Sender, Ramón | "psychic terrorists and the upcoming 1980's Ice Age" (Sender) |
56 | 1981 | Futuro imperfecto (collection) | Santos, Domingo | |
57 | 1981 | "Catarsis" | Barceló, Elia | |
58 | 1982 | Si las mujeres mandaran (o mandasen) | Palacio, José María | Matriarchal dicatorship; a man eventually decides to fight for freedom after falling in love |
59 | 1983 | Tunka, el guerrero | Gómez Sáinz, Joaquín | "In a barren land, a women-only tribe known as the Selenians rule. They are in war with the Tazaris, evil men." (IMDB) |
60 | 1984 | La dama del glaç (diptych in Catalan) | Fabregat, Rosa | genetic engineering |
61 | 1987 | Bye, Bye, Beethoven | Els Joglars | |
62 | 1987 | De la urbanización de la urbe | Navajas, Gonzalo | |
63 | 1989 | Sagrada | Barceló, Elia | |
64 | 1990 | Temblor | Montero, Rosa | fantasy; migration, depopulation, wastelands, gender, post-apocalypse, overdevelopment |
65 | 1991 | La luna quieta | Negrete, Javier | |
66 | 1993 | Acción mutante (film) | de la Iglesia, Alex | disability, beauty, sexism |
67 | 1993 | Salud mortal | Bermúdez, Gabriel | doctors rule, they want ignorant patients, dictatorship; well-known Spanish dystopia by sci-fi scholars |
68 | 1994 | Consecuencias naturales | Barceló, Elia | |
69 | 1995 | Atolladero | Aibar, Óscar | A post-apocalyptic western; lawless wastelands between cities; town called Atolladero ruled by a tyrant called the Judge |
70 | 1995 | El gran defecto | Cuervo Alvarez, José | fighting multinational companies (Fish and Meat corp) |
71 | 1995 | La sombra cazadora | del Toro, Suso | |
72 | 1996 | La sonrisa del gato (available in English translation as Cat's Whirld ) | Martínez, Rodolfo | Winner of the 1996 Premio Ignotus; Known as Spain's first cyberpunk novel. |
73 | 1997 | "Preservad la tierra" | Vilches Palma, José | ecological concerns of extraterrestrials who use them as an excuse to invade Earth |
74 | 1997 | Abre los ojos (film) | Amenábar, Alejandro | technology, inequality, hedonism, mimes, clones, rich white male privilege, cryogenic preservation |
75 | 1998 | "El sueño de la razón" | Boix, Armando | like Abre los ojos |
76 | 1999 | Tokio ya no nos quiere | Loriga, Ray | a pharmaceutical sales rep becomes addicted to a memory-erasing drug and leads a hedonistic lifestyle; he meets the creator of the drug |
77 | 1999 | "Tercer milenio: multinacional, energía y emigración" in Impactos en el tercer milenio, Juan José Aroz, ed. | Cuervo Alvarez, Jose | post industrial, multinational, energy |
78 | 1999 | La mirada de las furias | Negrete, Javier | |
79 | 2000 | Vitro (play) | Cabur, Beatriz | Biogenetic dystopia |
80 | 2000 | "El misterio de los orígenes" | Arsenal, León | Neanderthal community |
81 | 2001 | First Date. Guión radiofónico (play) | Cabur, Beatriz | ecological dystopia |
82 | 2001 | Planeta Hembra | Bustelo, Gabriela | feminism, essentialism, technology, gender |
83 | 2001 | Clara y la penumbra | Somoza, José Carlos | consumerism; painters use bodies of models as canvases that are displayed in museums/galleries |
84 | 2002 | La ciudad invisible | Díaz Conde, Edmundo | A scientist puts a chemical in the water supply that makes everyone invisible. He thinks he can create a just, anarchistic society in which men are not ruled by laws, politicians, work, etc. |
85 | 2002 | "Frontera" in Globalización, Juan José Aroz, ed. | Sánchez Carracedo, Fermín | border patrol officers capture undocumented immigrants crossing over and sell their organs for profit; won Premio Espiral CF 2001 |
86 | 2002 | El cortafuegos | Cofiño, Luis Angel | |
87 | 2002 | Sangre a borbotones | Reig, Rafael | ecology; Madrid under water, detective - Blade Runner style |
88 | 2002 | Las hijas de Tara | Gallego, Laura | androids, technology, people return to nature |
89 | 2002 | Los años eternos (play) | May, Ignacio | |
90 | 2002 | Cinco días antes | Fernández Castrosín, Carlos | dystopia set in Benidorm |
91 | 2003 | Antología de la ciencia ficción española: 1982-2002 (anthology) | Díez, Julián, ed. | |
92 | 2003 | "El último hombre gordo" in Eridan: Suplemento N.2 de Alfa Eridiani | Alamo, Alfredo | |
93 | 2003 | "Masas" in Eridan: Suplemento N.2 de Alfa Eridiani | Alamo, Alfredo | |
94 | 2004 | Ronensbourgh (play) | Cabur, Beatriz | metaphysical dystopia |
95 | 2004 | Dos mil Madrid cincuenta y cuatro | Miralles, Santiago | Madrid is being torn down and created to be a like it was in the 17th c. |
96 | 2004 | FAQ (film) | Atanes, Carlos | dystopian matriarchy; women rule and men are oppressed |
97 | 2004 | Hacia el teorema del punto fijo | Cuervo Alvarez, José | economy controlled by media, Big Brother, accumulating knowledge |
98 | 2004 | ¿Escasez de petróleo? (anthology) | Aroz, Juan José, ed. | contest for stories about peak oil sci-fi |
99 | 2005 | Cero absoluto | Fernández, Javier | technology |
100 | 2005 | Cazadores de luz | Casariego, Nicolás | consumption; everyone is always a consumer and seller, every transaction is financial |
101 | 2006 | La ciudad del Gran Rey | Esquivias, Oscar | 2nd part of a Dantesque trilogy, dystopian Burgos with human teeth as currency, compared with Calvino, Kafka |
102 | 2006 | El código secreto. El misterio de las Trescientas Holandesas. | Sabaté, Jorge | |
103 | 2006 | La alambrada de Levi | Frías, Milagros | environment; science and technology control everything; race |
104 | 2006 | La gran necrópolis | Ferreras, Juan Ignacio | consumption; sacrifice self and money to worship the dead |
105 | 2006 | Franco. Una historia alternativa (anthology) | Díez, Julián, ed. | uchronias about what would have happened if Franco hadn't won the Civil War |
106 | 2007 | Metaversos | Besa, Luis | speculation, virtual reality and second life; |
107 | 2007 | Perro muerto en tintorería: Los fuertes (play) | Liddell, Angélica | |
108 | 2008 | Neocracia (play) | Almansa, Pilar G. | political-capitalist dystopia |
109 | 2008 | Evolución (play) | Tur, Aina | Biogenetic dystopia |
110 | 2008 | Mano de Galaxia. I. Golconda II. Haladriel | Bermúdez, Gabriel | |
111 | 2008 | "Mil euros por tu vida" in Futuros peligrosos | Barceló, Elia | technology, inequality, immigration; wealthy older Spaniards transplant their consciousness into the bodies of impoverished Africans |
112 | 2008 | Las puertas de lo posible (collection) | Merino, José María | |
113 | 2008 | Switch in the Red | Vallejo, Susana | |
114 | 2008 | El mapa del tiempo (book 1 of La triología victoriana ) | Palma, Félix J. | famous Steampunk trilogy; book 2: El mapa del cielo (2012), book 3: El mapa del caos (2014) |
115 | 2009 | Si en la ciudad la luz | Guillamón, Eva | |
116 | 2009 | "Brígada Diógenes" in Prospectivas. Antología del cuento de ciencia ficción española actual, Fernando Ángel Moreno, ed. | Muñoz Rengel, Juan Jacinto | like Fahrenheit 451 |
117 | 2010 | Eros. La superproducción de los afectos | Fernández Porta, Eloy | materialism, media, sex, reality shows; takes place in 2040 after the market collapses |
118 | 2010 | Maximum Shame (film) | Atanes, Carlos | |
119 | 2010 | Alba cromm | Mora, Vicente Luis | |
120 | 2010 | Los muertos (book 1 of the trilogy Las huellas) | Carrión, Jorge | people like immigrants are without identities and pay money to discover them; metafictional |
121 | 2010 | Recalibrados | Santos, Antonio | genetic modification |
122 | 2011 | El canto de las sirenas | Hernández Garrido, Raúl | |
123 | 2011 | Futuro 10.0 (play) | Iglesias, Olga and Alvaro Tato | humorous dystopia |
124 | 2011 | Clonación (play) | Guillamón, Eva | Biogenetic dystopia |
125 | 2011 | El adepto de la reina (available in English translation as The Queen's Adept ) | Martínez, Rodolfo | A mix of genres: spy novel, space opera, fantasy, a touch of dystopia |
126 | 2011 | Dorian Stark | Brito Delgado, Alexis | Cross between Blade Runner and "En el ático" |
127 | 2011 | El salario del gigante | Ardillo, José | ecology, ecofascism, greed, income inequality |
128 | 2011 | Lágrimas en la lluvia | Montero, Rosa | ecology, income/social inequality, clones, consumerism, globalization; detective dystopia; |
129 | 2011 | Oxford 7 | Tusset, Pablo | |
130 | 2011 | La jaula | Serrano, Javier | desert, Panopticon |
131 | 2011 | Eva (film) | Maíllo, Kike | technology, robots, AI |
132 | 2011 | Los templos de Syrix | Cabo, Miguel Angel | perfect harmony because of complete control; based on Rush song |
133 | 2011 | Fugacidades distópicas (collection) | Romero Ruiz de Castro, Jaime | short stories about dystopia and death; human cruelty |
134 | 2011 | Ciudad sin estrellas | de Paz, Montse | nuclear post apocalypse, class and industry segregation, only rich can fly, underground cities; won Premio Minotauro 2011 |
135 | 2012 | El régimen del pienso | Calonge, Eusebio | |
136 | 2012 | 2123: El año de Moebius | Aluart, Angel de | |
137 | 2012 | Gerotron 2050 | Ibarrondo, Juan | a pharmaceutical megacorporation deliberately spreads a disease so that it can sell the drugs to cure it |
138 | 2012 | "Las islas" (first part of the poetry collection La nave) | Barragán, José Pablo | dystopian poems, one similar to Nineteen Eighty-Four |
139 | 2012 | Cenital | Bueso, Emilio | ecovillage trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic, peak-oil society; won Premio Celsius 2013 |
140 | 2012 | Metanoia | Arroyo Merino, Dioni | |
141 | 2012 | Ultimos días en el puesto del este | Fallarás, Cristina | post-apocalypse; religious fanatics take over; resistance |
142 | 2012 | Distopías de ayer y mañana (collection) | Blanco Claraco, Tomás | |
143 | 2012 | "Arizona" (play) | Rubio, Juan Carlos | vigilante justice on the border between the US and Mexico; tragicomedy |
144 | 2012 | Taksim | Sardá, Juan | consumerism and technology rule supreme |
145 | 2012 | Crónicas de la distopía (collection) | Valenzuela Real, Víctor M. | |
146 | 2013 | Intemperie | Carrasco, Jesús | Drought and violence have taken over a country. |
147 | 2013 | "La textura de las palabras" in Terra Nova Vol. 2 | Martínez, Felicidad | separation of the sexes, finalist for the Premio Ignotus 2013 |
148 | 2013 | Un futuro sin más | Turiel, Antonio | ecological concerns |
149 | 2013 | La repoblación | Ardillo, José | |
150 | 2013 | Enlazados | García Miranda, Carlos | juvenile dystopia |
151 | 2013 | 2020 | Moreno, Javier | people living in abandoned airplanes, a lot of "anti-sistema" people |
152 | 2013 | Con todo el odio de nuestro corazón | Cámara, Fernando | 3 disenfranchised people plotting to murder a corrupt politician implicated in the financial crisis; middle class living in shanty towns, won the XVI Premio F. García Pavón de Novela |
153 | 2013 | Crónicas de ciudad feliz | Almira Picazo, Carlos | living in a dome, outside the dome is a toxic atmosphere, bad people are deported |
154 | 2013 | El enigma de Nora. Luminantes. | Roca, Ibán | |
155 | 2013 | En la isla del petirrojo | Magunazelaia, Josune | |
156 | 2013 | La peixera | Gràcia Clotet, Maiol de | |
157 | 2013 | Por si se va la luz | Moreno, Lara | a rural dystopia, borderline post-apocalyptic |
158 | 2013 | The Legistand’s | Caballé Bayo, Alejandro | |
159 | 2014 | Subway Placebo | Curiel, Rosario | |
160 | 2014 | Inercia | García, Ariadna G. | Spain is about to elect a neofascist party to power. There are few public services. Conflicts unfold in an international airport. |
161 | 2014 | El arca de Noé | Aliaga, Adán y David Valero | It's the year 2020 and there's a global crisis. 2 security guards at a factory are fired and they decide to create a machine to travel to other worlds. |
162 | 2014 | Toda una vida (play) | Buero, Antonia | ecological dystopia |
163 | 2014 | The Seer. Tragedia en dos actos y un sueño (play) | Viñolo, Carmen | political-capitalist dystopia |
164 | 2014 | "El error" (originally publised in 2009) in Mañana todavía (Not all of the stories in this anthology are dystopias) | Montero, Rosa | clones, identity awareness, social class, exclusion, ecological segregation |
165 | 2014 | "Instrucciones para cambiar el mundo" in Mañana todavía (Not all of the stories in this anthology are dystopias) | Palma, Félix J. | pointless rules that can't be questioned; inefficiency institutionalized |
166 | 2014 | "We Kids" in Mañana todavía (Not all of the stories in this anthology are dystopias) | Gallego, Laura | technology, fame, social media |
167 | 2014 | "Al garete" in Mañana todavía (Not all of the stories in this anthology are dystopias) | Bueso, Emilio | ecological disaster, post-apocalypse, water everywhere, battle for resources |
168 | 2014 | "2084. Después de la revolución" in Mañana todavía (Not all of the stories in this anthology are dystopias) | Barceló, Elia | ecovillage, fertility, gender roles, segregation, class divide, |
169 | 2014 | "Limpieza de sangre" in Mañana todavía (Not all of the stories in this anthology are dystopias) | Aguilera, Juan Miguel | Islamic dictatorship meets the Ebola crisis |
170 | 2014 | "Camp century" in Mañana todavía (Not all of the stories in this anthology are dystopias) | Pastor, Marc | post-apocalypse, resources, post-human, disease, dehumanization, "readers" |
171 | 2014 | "En el ático" in Mañana todavía (Not all of the stories in this anthology are dystopias) | Martínez, Rodolfo | different social classes live on different levels (society is hierarchical), segregation, a female clone kills other clones |
172 | 2014 | "La inteligencia definitiva" in Mañana todavía (Not all of the stories in this anthology are dystopias) | Merino, José María | cell phones, technology, luddites, artificial intelligence, source of humanity |
173 | 2014 | "Gracia" in Mañana todavía (Not all of the stories in this anthology are dystopias) | Vallejo, Susana | post-apocalypse, midwife, selling babies of the poor for profit |
174 | 2014 | "Colapso" in Mañana todavía (Not all of the stories in this anthology are dystopias) | Muñoz Rengel, Juan Jacinto | what happens when hackers mess with chips in people and they go berserk |
175 | 2014 | "Los centinelas del tiempo" in Mañana todavía (Not all of the stories in this anthology are dystopias) | Negrete, Javier | criticizing a society that is too politically correct, like Fahrenheit 451 |
176 | 2014 | "Techt" in Alucinadas: Antología de relatos de ciencia ficción escrita por mujeres, Jurado, Cristina and Leticia Lara, eds. | Sofía Rhei | |
177 | 2014 | "El fin del capitalismo: el principio del fin" | Jiménez Cantón, Guillermo | story in an anthology about the end of capitalism; finalist in the contest |
178 | 2014 | La ciudad vertical | Torras de Ugarte, Javier | vertical city; stratified according to purity of blood |
179 | 2014 | Los huérfanos | Carrión, Jorge | 2nd book of his trilogy Las huellas; a group of survivors of World War III has been living for 13 years in a bunker in Peiking; a crazy guy threatens the harmony of the community |
180 | 2014 | Sueñan los androides (film) | de Sosa, Ion | housing/economic/ecological crisis, generation, dehumanizing work, Blade Runner in Benidorm |
181 | 2014 | Mayhem I | Iñaki Sendino | comic dystopia, series |
182 | 2014 | Karak | Melendi | |
183 | 2014 | Nosexo | Pérez Mulet, Eduardo | sci-fi about no sex or love in the future |
184 | 2014 | Automata (film) | Ibáñez, Gabe | robots, wastelands caused by ecological decay, cyberpunk |
185 | 2014 | Los días grises | Mínguez, Sergio Alonso | pathogen transmitted by money, post apocalyptic; on my Kindle |
186 | 2014 | Torrente 5: Eurovegas (film) | Segura, Santiago | |
187 | 2014 | La reconversión humana | Martínez, Angel Falcón | |
188 | 2014 | Segundo origen (film) | Porta, Carles | based on Mecanoscrito del segundo origen by Pedrolo from 1974 |
189 | 2014 | La revolución de los ángeles (novel in 2014, film in 2015) | Silvestre Grau, Javier and Clavell Montplet, Oriol | a trend develops of terminally-ill, lower to middle-class people killing off corrupt politicians |
190 | 2014 | "Gira, gira" in Historia y antología de ciencia ficción española , Díez, Julián, ed. | Santos, Domingo | |
191 | 2014 | "Quercarrán" in Dulces dieciséis y otros relatos | Vaquerizo, Eduardo | controlling the brain with drugs |
192 | 2014 | Un minuto antes en la oscuridad | Martínez Biurrun, Ismael | post-apocalypse |
193 | 2014 | 1938 | Montalvo, Jesus | |
194 | 2014 | Zona prohibida | Cirici, David | premio Ramon Muntaner in 2013 |
195 | 2014 | El imperio de Yegorov | Moyano, Manuel | finalist for the Premio Herralde |
196 | 2014 | Garden. El jardín del fin del mundo | Romero, Emma | |
197 | 2014 | Barcelona no existe | Castillo, David | |
198 | 2014 | No serás nadie | González Ortiz, Alberto | |
199 | 2014 | Barcelona Roman Steampunk. Libro 1 | Valor Montero, J. and Laura Llimós | |
200 | 2014 | Mujer sin hijo | Díaz, Jenn | |
201 | 2014 | Tu viaje a irlanda | Cora, David de | a world dominated by women, but men can still have rights in Ireland; won the Premio Joven de Narrativa from Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
202 | 2014 | Spartana | Gómez Cadenas, Juan José | |
203 | 2015 | El peso del corazón. El regreso de Bruna Husky | Montero, Rosa | The 2nd book that follows Lágrimas de la lluvia. Borderline dystopia. |
204 | 2015 | Proyecto Lázaro | Gil, Mateo | Man resuscitated from cryonization. |
205 | 2015 | Banqueros vs. Zombies. El juego de los mercados (play) | Almansa, Pilar G., Dolores Garaylade, and Ignacio García May | Political-capitalist dystopia, interactive theater |
206 | 2015 | Los turistas | Carrión, Jorge | third book of his trilogy Las huellas |
207 | 2015 | Cryptshow presenta: distopía (anthology) | González, David, Benedito Tejera, Jaume, Rueda, Lluis, and Mateo, Mónica, eds. | collection - produced in Catalunya |
208 | 2015 | Los que sueñan | Quiroga, Elio | |
209 | 2015 | Nos mienten | Vaquerizo, Eduardo | inequality, corporate control, called the dystopia of the 15-M movement, won Premio Celsius |
210 | 2015 | Fanhunter Essential (graphic novel) | Piñol, Cels | |
211 | 2015 | Luznova | Arrarás Arratibel, Antonio | sci fi and dystopia |
212 | 2015 | Quasar: Antología hard sf (anthology) | Valenzuela Real, Víctor M., ed. | |
213 | 2015 | Las aventuras de Ritlodeo: de la utopía a la distopía | García Rodríguez, Francisco M. | |
214 | 2015 | Luces y espectros | Dato Ruiz, Juan Manuel | |
215 | 2015 | Vulcania (film) | Skaf, José | |
216 | 2015 | No estoy aquí ahora | González, David | |
217 | 2015 | Una utopía, por favor (anthology) | Proyecto Homocrisis | finalists of a writing contest |
218 | 2015 | Fractal | Cordones, Damián | |
219 | 2016 | El ojo de Dios | Luna, David | |
220 | 2016 | En el futuro vivíamos mejor: Madrid 2054 D.C. | Martínez Conesa, Antonio | Nations dissolve. Everyone is divided into 2 groups: those in power and those who receive benefits from the state and stability. Everything seems perfect, but it's not. |
221 | 2016 | Fractura: Una novela greenpunk | Arroyo, Dioni | A fracking, ecological dystopia. |
222 | 2016 | Madrid: Frontera | Llorente, David | economic crisis, the lives of the precariat, fantastical version of Madrid with a body of water on the outskirts and sirens luring people to their deaths |
223 | 2016 | "The Ravisher, The Thief" In Barcelona Tales , Whates, Ian (George), ed. | Womack, Marian | stories written originally in English |
224 | 2016 | El sistema | Menéndez Salmón | a sentinel turns into the object of observation, he loses his mind and is sent to a Sleep Academy and given drugs, his group is overtaken by rebels and he is taken on an aimless journey with them, they seek prototypes for a second genesis; won Biblioteca breve award |
225 | 2016 | Escuadrón 17 | Nexxuz | young adult fiction |
226 | 2016 | Los huéspedes | Pujante, Pedro | rural dystopia |
227 | 2016 | La redención (play) | Merino, Ana | love and jealousy in a plant where there is toxic waste; ecological dystopia |
228 | 2016 | Días para morir en el paraíso | Molina, Jaime | |
229 | 2016 | I.D. (graphic novel) | Ríos, Emma | a dystopia about full body transplants; philosophical reflection on identity |
230 | 2016 | Alucinadas II: Antología de relatos de ciencia ficción escrita por mujeres (anthology) | Antuña, Sara and Ana Díaz Eiriz | |
231 | 2016 | Muerto el sol | Martín Echarri, Miguel | |
232 | 2017 | Antártida | Hernández Garrido, Raúl | |
233 | 2017 | Alucinadas III: Antología de relatos de ciencia ficción escrita por mujeres (anthology) | Ángulo, María y Elena Clemente, editoras. | |
234 | 2017 | Éxodo (o cómo salvar a la reina) | Luna, David | Inhabitants of a mysterious planet are evolving as a species. Climate change forces them to leave. There is a beehive metaphor. Dehumanization is pervasive. Winner of the UPC award in 2016. |
235 | 2017 | 2065 | Gallardo, José Miguel | ecological dysotpia; global warming |
236 | 2017 | Dos mil noventa y seis | Sánchez, Ginés | |
237 | 2017 | El palacio de Petko | Silva, Lorenzo and Noemí Trujillo | Energy crisis in a world dominated by virtual reality. Young adult novel. |
238 | 2017 | 2222 | Pérez López, Salvador | There's overpopulation. The main characters live in a house in the countryside at the margins of society. |
239 | 2017 | Quasar 2: Antología Ci.Fi | Valenzuela, Víctor M. | |
240 | 2017 | La vida de los clones | Espigado, Miguel | Humans create clones for fun, but things change when they are given freedom. |
241 | 2017 | Rendición | Loriga, Ray | won Premio Alfaguara de Novela, dystopia about transparency and privacy |
242 | 2017 | Distopía (television series) | Serra, Koldo | tv series on FilmIn - 1 episode released, called the "Black Mirror" of Spain, crowdfunded |
243 | 2017 | Turistia | Rodríguez Burón, Pablo | Imagine if all of Spain were entirely in the hands of a corporation and its only purpose was to benefit tourists. |
244 | 2017 | Despertares | Martínez, Felicidad | |
245 | 2017 | Mañana cruzaremos el Ganges | Ortega, Ekaitz | |
246 | 2017 | El futuro que hicimos | Eslava, Oscar | imagining what would happen if the ideals of 15-m were brought to fruition; utopian undertones |
247 | 2017 | 36 | Delgado, Nieves | Artificial intelligence |
248 | 2018 | La trilogía de occidente (Sholombra, De Sholombra a Nógdam, Nógdam) | Bosco Castilla, Juan | |
249 | 2018 | Los cinco estigmas del éter | Morón, Antonio César | |
250 | 2018 | Distópicas: Antología de escritoras españolas de ciencia ficción | Robles, Lola y Teresa López-Pellisa, editoras | |
251 | 2018 | Poshumanas: Antología de escritoras españolas de ciencia ficción | Robles, Lola y Teresa López-Pellisa, editoras | |
252 | 2019 | "Secret Story of Doors" from the collection Everything is Made of Letters | Rhei, Sofía |