After we read the first chapter, I find this book just a little... eerie? I mean, when it was written, it must have seemed like total science fiction, like nothing that could ever possibly happen. And yet here we are, with all the technology and the tools to make it a reality. We have so much confidence in democratically elected government keeping anything remotely like that world from ever happening. Well, the Ukraine had a democratically elected president, too, and look what happened to him.
What genre do you even put this in? Sci-fi turned dystopian through the passage of time? Is there even a clear divide between them? I don't think there is, much. Just two sides of the same coin.
I know that this book is one of the ones that always shows up for banned book month.Why I'm not sure, unless it's (gasp) the references to sex and socialism. I personally have not found it to be very offensive so far, but then, some people are offended by everything.
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