... rule are uchronias, so called 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 ... end. No one wanted to take a chance on a novel about past, present of future censorship. Fahrenheit 451 is a clear reaction to the McCarthy era in which it was written; the near futur...

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