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dystopiaImaginary society whose evil qualities are meant to serve as a moral or political warning. The term was coined in 1868 by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, and is the opposite of a Utopia. George Orwell's 1984, published in 1949 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) are examples of novels about dystopias. Dystopias are common in science fiction.
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Other writers are named in "James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution" as creators of dystopias, such as London, Wells, Zamyatin, and Huxley, but they are not credited with wisdom as Shaw's "Chesterbelloc" is in the sentence above. George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Ayn Rand, and other gifted writers have created fictional dystopias that illustrate totalitarian methods at work. Unlike many science fiction dystopias, this one seems uncomfortably realistic. |
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