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There's a reason that Hollywood is still making Hunger Games movies - something about dystopian fiction just works in the billion-dollar YA literature industry. At BookCon 2026, two authors with extensive experience in that industry - Tahereh Mafi and Chloe Gong of the Shatter Me and StrangeBloom series, respectively - hopped on stage for an hour-long panel as to why that genre sticks...

And Popverse was there with a video camera. 

This is one of the many Bookcon 2026 panels Popverse filmed at New York City's Javits on the Hudson. Consult our Bookcon 2026 panel hub for a list of all of the panels we have available, and what's left to be released.

Watch The Importance and Impact of Dystopian and Fantasy Fiction with Tahereh Mafi and Chloe Gong now:

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