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Dystopic novel



There's a bazillion dystopic novels.  I bet if you looked at the science 
fiction genre, the dystopic would outnumber utopic, and I bet you would find 
an sharp increase, in general fiction, after the proliferation of nuclear 
weapons in the fifties.

I've never read The Handmaid's Tale.  Sound's like I should.

H.G. Wells, The Time Machine is a good old example of this.  I think  we are 
probably less interested in post-apocalyptic scenarios, though.  How about 
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, for institutional manipulation of 
thought and language.

Peter Buch
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