... What-if? stories, like Fatherland (Robert Harris, 1992). Dystopias have always been a powerful rhetorical tool, which can make them controversial. A good example of this is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Flamingo, 1993). In the preface, Bradbury himself states: "By this time we were deeply into the McCarthy period. McCarthy had bullied the Army into removing some "tainted" books from the overseas libraries Meanwhile our ... protagonist fighting to regain their lost humanity, whether it's in the leisure dystopia/utopia gone wrong setting of Brave New World, or the totalitarian nightmare...

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