Many works combine elements of both utopias and dystopias. Cyberpunk settings are dystopias with corruption, computers and internet connectivity. During the pulp era, unfavorable presentations of matriarchal societies, even dystopias were common. There is some irony in Skinner's choice, because Orwell's and Huxley's novels are both dystopias. Dystopias are societies where the author illustrates the worst that can happen. Dystopias usually extrapolate elements of contemporary society and this can be read as political warnings. It was first published in "Boston Review", in their 2017 "Global Dystopias" anthology. Dramatising New Labour (2010); Very British Dystopias (2013) and Period Drama Politics (2016). Robert Hugh Benson wrote one of the first modern dystopias, Lord of the World (1907). There are a few dystopias that have an "anti-ecological" theme.