Wind Chaser

The Hunger Games is one contributor, and there have been a lot of movies like that too. I think it has to do with how much technological advancements and surveillance culture have been in the news lately, so much so that it has created so many possible dystopian situations in the minds of many people. Even Taco Bell has cashed in on the dystopian trend, characterizing McDonald's as the repressive dictators of breakfast. It was the subject of a DeviantArt feature today.

Those helped as well and may in fact be the cause for why such fictional stories are popular.

Dystopian fiction seems to peak about every 15-20 years or so, as far as I can tell. I know I've been through another two other peaks back in the 90's with the cyberpunk sub-genre, one in the mid 70's with a lot of surviving the seemingly inevitable WWIII, and there was one in the 60's with Logan's Run, Clockwork Orange, Planet of the Apes, the story Blade Runner was based on, etc.