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Did he? Or was it like that even back then? I'm reading this book, and it's like a carbon copy of our world in the US nowadays. I keep yelling "oh my god, this is basically happening right now!!!" Not as blatant and (I don't know the word) as in the book, but essentially the same. The book is like now, but on steroids (to explain the word I'm missing). The divide/polarization, the police brutality, the pollution, corporations and exploitation, the government's overreach..... Etc, it's all here now.

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[–] funkless_eck 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Sci Fi is about the time it was written in, with a veneer of futurism to distance it enough to make it not a politicial polemic.

Hitchhikers Guide is about 70s Britain

Foundation is about 50's Europe

Handmaids Tale is about post-WW2 thru 80s colonialism in Africa

F 451 is about 50s America...