1. Utopian/dystopian thinking in 60s fiction
... than More's romance; it appears in the Timaeus of Plato and is fully developed in his Republic. The idealized description of Sparta in Plutarchs life of Lycurgus belongs to the same class of literary Utopias, though it professes to be historical. A similar idea also occurs in legends of ... 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 search for a magazine publisher to print portions ...
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