As the world moved from World War II to the Cold War with the dawn of the nuclear age, a small group of writers began crafting some amazing fiction about the not-too-distant future. George Orwell is among the most famous of these writers, and his book 1984, about an authoritarian future, is among the most popular of those works. Ray Bradbury is another, often overlooked, writer of this genre.
Many describe Orwell, Bradbury, and others among their exclusive ranks as prophetic in their gaze toward human society. They wrote about dystopian futures not only for entertaining ends but with a purposeful sense of warning of what might come if our governments’ excesses and social trends were allowed to flourish.
When I read these books, I don’t see prophets. I see astute thinkers who accurately diagnose human nature’s predictable ends.
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