Wells so that they might be classified as dystopic. The article, nonetheless, hopes to add the dystopic dimension to both of the philosophy of Nietzsche and the SF writings of H. Wells is always regarded as one of the forefathers of the SF genre. It is worthy to mention that Friedrich Nietzsche is accounted a nihilist philosopher. Well's3 The Time Machine (1895) is analysed from a dystopic perspective. The article also endeavours to point out the congruency of the definition of the term 'dystopia' on both the lexical and the philosophical levels. In the SF genre, the recurrence of depicting the future as a society that drifted away from the aspired perfection to be overwhelmed with evil gave rise to the concept of 'dystopia.' The article attempts to prove that the concept of dystopia is traceable in the Nietzschean nihilist philosophy and finds a line of continuity in the ideologies of his disciple Richard Rorty, as well as, in Jean Baudrillard's concept of simulacrum, which is also nihilist in essence. Abstract Dystopia as a concept became widely in use by the end of the twentieth century though its traits are detectable in some Science Fiction (SF2) novels that appeared in the second half of the twentieth century, noting that dystopia as a concept was not classified yet.
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