If you’d like to spend some time living in someone else’s nightmare for a change, here are the best dystopian books to check out right now. Fahrenheit 451 is just as bleak as 1984 but with less gross varicose ulcers and more arm mounted flamethrowers, what more could you ask for from a dystopian. The human spirit, these authors assure us, will always prevail, one way or another. The circumstances of these dystopian novels may be dire, but their message is anything but. The seminal French New Wave director François Truffaut also made a. He produced a stage version of the novel at the Studio Theatre Playhouse in Los Angeles. Right now, we’re all feeling pushed to extremes, and hoping we’ll prove ourselves if and when the time comes. Following in the futuristic-dustpan tradition of George Orwell’s 1984, Fahrenheit 451 was published in 1953 and became Bradbury’s most popular and widely read work of fiction. When the stakes are the highest, and the chances of survival are the lowest, these heroes time and time again break through their given chains and fight for what they’ve held in their hearts all along: Family. Part of the reason dystopian novels are so fun is that they push characters to extremes, stripping them down to their essential natures and forcing them to face who they are when they have no choice but to keep going. While many have been busying themselves setting up a new routine and loading up on all the #quarantainment they can find, the truth is that there’s no roadmap for going through this - unless we start looking to fiction, that is.
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