Welcome to The User's Guide to Science Fiction Dystopias. 

This week we cover the myriad ways in which sci-fi has dealt with political oppression, surveillance and government sticking it to us plebs. A veritable underground journey stopping at Thomas More's Utopia, The One State of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, the London of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Airstrip One from 1984 before we jump off and have a stroll around with Phillip K. Dick, Iain M. Banks, Neil Stephenson, Margaret Atwood and Ursula Le Guin.

A timely and terrifying journey through the worst in societal tits-uppery.