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10 devastating dystopias
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  • The Time Machine (1895), by H.G. Wells
  • My (1920; We), by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Brave New World (1932), by Aldous Huxley
  • Atlas Shrugged (1957), by Ayn Rand
  • A Clockwork Orange (1962), by Anthony Burgess
  • The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), by Margaret Atwood
  • The Children of Men (1992), by P.D. James
  • The Giver (1993), by Lois Lowry
  • Parable of the Sower (1993), by Octavia E. Butler
  • Never Let Me Go (2005), by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Five Morlocks with long white hair, dark faces, and primitive clothing stand menacingly in an underground lair in a scene from The Time Machine (1960), directed by George Pal. The Handmaid's Tale

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