... ). 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" ... world. There is no desire to remember the lost world of humanity's past, a fact that is enforced by the distinct lack of biography the characters possess. This can be seen as something relatively unique to dystopian/science fiction of the 1960's, a literary representa...

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