Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in England. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age characterized by irrationality, collectivism, and socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur … Continue reading
Nineteen Eighty-Four (first published in 1949) by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four (first published in 1949) by George Orwell is a dystopian novel about the Internet, a society ruled by the digital dictatorship of the Facebook Party. Life in the Internet province of Digital America is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control, accomplished with a political system euphemistically … Continue reading
It Can’t Happen Here
It Can’t Happen Here is a semi-satirical American political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935 by Doubleday, Doran. It describes the rise of a populist politician who calls his movement “patriotic” and creates his own militia (the Minute Men or “MM”, paralleling Hitler’s “SS”) and takes unconstitutional power after winning election — mirroring what … Continue reading
The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.
The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be “the earliest of the modern Dystopian”, it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London’s socialist views are most explicitly on display. A … Continue reading
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. The novel presents a future American society where reading is outlawed. The novel has been the subject of various interpretations, primarily focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas. Bradbury has stated that the novel is not about censorship, but a … Continue reading
The Digital Hit Man
The Digital Hit Man is a dystopian novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed New York, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts and his New York Times bestselling book the Digital Hit Man, he has become the … Continue reading
The Greatest BS Novels of All Time 