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Science Fiction

OrwellwasRight

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2. This list is missing Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 09:28 PM

Dec 2015

His very first novel and probably my favorite. A true dystopian vision of a future in which people are in service to the economy instead of the economy being in service to people. Kind of like USA in 2015.

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