a year where no science fiction writer could have predicted that we'd have an ex-president who incited an insurrection, and that American democracy would be hanging on by a thread because of one man.
Here's a summary of fictional dystopian futures that go back 100 years. See what worried these writers:
In 1921 a Russian writer, Yevgeny Zamyatin, wrote "We" one of the first modern dystopian tales that projects a dark future for mankind.
One of my favorite dystopian stories in the 1930s was "It can't happen Here," by Sinclair Lewis.
More favorite novels in the decades ahead:
The 1940's - Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
The 1950s - Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
The 1960s - Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
The 1970s - The Stand, by Stephen King
The 1990s - The War in 2020, by Ralph Peters
The 21st Century
2000s - Feed by M.T. Anderson
2010s - Wool by Hugh Howey.
2020s - The Ballet of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
And here we are... 2022.
Living in fear of the collapse of our republic and the ensuing chaos that'll bring. Our society seems intent on imploding. We've become the collective fear of a century of writers.
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