... future society, pointing fearfully at the way the world is supposedly going in order to provide urgent propaganda for a change in direction. A very useful definition is given by the Wikipedia Online Dictionary: "A dystopia is any society considered to be undesirable, for any of a number of reasons. The term was coined as a converse to a Utopia, and is most usually used to refer ... 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 over...

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