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Beyond the classics like {{amazonurl|isbn=014118776X|title=1984}} and {{amazonurl|isbn=0099518473|title=Brave New World}}, here is 's a collection of ten dystopian novels more than forty years old which demonstrate that the more things change, the more our basic anxieties remain the same.
'''{{amazonurl|isbn=B00ONK8KUA|title=The Republic of the Future; or, Socialism a Reality by Anna Bowman Dodd}}''' (1887)
'''{{amazonurl|isbn=B07DR44YJJ|title=Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin}}''' (1937)
Like Mary Anne Evans (a.k.a. George Eliot) before her, Burdekin used a male pseudonym to publish this alternative future in which the Nazis win World War II conquer the world and engender a male-dominated totalitarian world society where women are kept as cattle-like breeders and men are mindless automatons.
'''{{amazonurl|isbn=0299038947|title=Kallocain by Karin Boye}}''' (1940)
In a future totalitarian United States where lack of identification is a crime, a genetically-enhanced, world-famous pop singer and talk-show host wakes up one morning to discover that he never existed. The novel won the 1975 John W. Campbell Memorial Award and was nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards.
Biography: [[:Category:Greg Hickey |Greg Hickey]] is the author of the dystopian fiction novel ''{{amazonurl|isbn=B06XXNRYLG|title=Our Dried Voices}}'' and curator of [https://www.greghickeywrites.com/best-dystopian-novels/ ''The 110 Best Dystopian Novels.''].
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