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The Books Issue 2016: The Dystopia Bookshelf

There are seemingly endless ways to imagine social breakdown in literature (and film). Here are some better-known works of dystopian fiction — and how closely they foreshadow current affairs. 1984 (1949) by George Orwell. Protagonists struggle against an over-managed, authoritarian surveillance state rampant with deception and human rights abuses; the book popularized the terms “Big […]

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