12 June 2017
Consuming dystopian science fiction has quickly become a popular coping mechanism for Americans trying to adapt to (or resist) the sometimes-dark reality of 2017. Immediately after the Trump inauguration and the White House's embrace of "alternative facts," George Orwell's 1984 shot to the very top of Amazon's best-seller list. Other dystopian classics-like Aldous Huxley's 1932 portrait of a more comfortable but no less frightening future authoritarian regime, Brave New World, and Sinclair Lewis' alternate history of a fascist America, 1935's It Can't Happen Here-also quickly hit the top 20.
