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Dystopian fiction has a long and distinguished history in many languages. Violence, war, crime, vigilantism, the hunting down of human beings as a blood sport are just some of the distinguishing features of novels such as 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaid's Tale, Farenheit 451, films such as Mad Max, A Clockwork Orange and many others. Two new dystopian novels by the scientist Susan Greenfield and academic Martin Goodman give Matthew Sweet the chance to ask whether dystopias ever really go away, and even if they don't do they ever say anything constructive about the future? Henry Gee joins the discussion.