Of all the dystopias I read as a teen I think Fahrenheit 451 is the flimsiest thematically but the prose more than makes up for it
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It hit a theme of the cyberpunk dystopias that followed it -- we'll be BUSY. We'll be TIRED. The problem w the future is just too much shit
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Before it became a trope of 1980s cyberpunk Bradbury hit that theme of dystopia just through inescapable goddamn commercials
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real hipsters read We; dystopian fiction before it was cool
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I seem to recall F451 also having police chases as entertainment, much as we have been getting in the post-OJ world.
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