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Did he? Or was it like that even back then? I'm reading this book, and it's like a carbon copy of our world in the US nowadays. I keep yelling "oh my god, this is basically happening right now!!!" Not as blatant and (I don't know the word) as in the book, but essentially the same. The book is like now, but on steroids (to explain the word I'm missing). The divide/polarization, the police brutality, the pollution, corporations and exploitation, the government's overreach..... Etc, it's all here now.

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[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If you like this type of science fiction, could I interest you in The Space Merchants and Gladiator At Law by Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth? More prescient and much more biting, in my opinion. Also much earlier, having been written in the 1950s.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

You absolutely could. And thank you. Put them on the list. I've been reading nonfiction my whole life and I just picked up fiction recently and I kinda like it.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That is right guy up my alley, I love finding old sci-fi.