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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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