Dystopian Society Checklist
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One of the features of great dystopian novels such as Brave New World, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, and Atlas Shrugged is that their readers notice present times or events that may not have arrived, but which are within sight.
Novelists of the future (and perhaps the very near future) might consider these societal characteristics fo…