American Nightmares: The Near-Future Dystopia as Political Warning, from Bradbury to Butler to the Present
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A guide to the American political dystopia. Enter at your own risk.
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A definitive guide to the American political dystopia — from Fahrenheit 451's burning books to Octavia Butler's eerily prescient 2024, Philip K. Dick's manufactured realities, Ursula Le Guin's anarchist ambiguity, and N.K. Jemisin's enslaved geological workers. Why these five writers share a single tradition, and what that tradition demands of the reader.

In every great dystopia, memory is a battlefield. The regime controls the past to own the future. The citizen who remembers commits an act of resistance. A deep dive into memory as political force across Orwell, Bradbury, Lowry, and Ogawa.
📚 FDR Drive by: James Comey
After a stint in the private sector, working at the largest hedge fund in the world, Nora Carleton has returned to her former role as a New York City federal prosecutor. And she's arrived just in time to face one of the most dangerous domestic terror attacks in the history of the city. A threat is bu...
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📝 Plot: Assigned to defend a woman accused of murdering her lover, a committed lawyer uncovers intrigue and political conspiracy behind the crime, revealing dark ties with a powerful candidate.
📚 Fundamentally by: Nussaibah Younis
When Nadia Amin, a witty and bighearted PhD, publishes an article on deradicalization, everything changes. The United Nations comes calling with an opportunity to put her theory into practice and lead a rehabilitation program for women caught in the crosshairs of harmful ideology. And why n...
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📚 The Merge by: Grace Walker
Earth and its resources have been pushed to breaking point, giving rise to a revolutionary and highly controversial procedure in which two people’s consciousness can be combined to exist in one body.
How far would you go to never say goodbye?
Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alz...
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