Robert Heinlein wrote a novella called If *This Goes On—* in the collection *Assignment in Eternity*. It’s not about the beginning of fascism, though. They’re already there. It’s what they do about it. It’s excellent.
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Prophet Song
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Winter of the World by Ken Follet.
Book two of “The Century Trilogy” – a historical fiction series that covers WW1 (book 1), WW2 (book 2) and the Cold War / civil rights (book 3) from various perspectives.
The series is one of my all time favorites and the lead up to WW2 is especially fascinating. The patriarch in one of the German families is in the German government and opposes the Nazi regime.
Highly recommend.
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To some point; Franz Kafka’s “The Process”
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell
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Its more during, but After The Revolution by Robert Evens is very good and you can listen to the book on spottily. Its after the US has been balkanized in another civil war.
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Parable of the Sower is after societal collapse but the main character’s specific community collapses.
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Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts (2011)
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Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich is a good one for that totalitarian govt backdrop. Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel and Severance by Ling Ma are good for societal collapse but not authoritarian govt.
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It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
The newspaper.
Random acts of senseless violence by Jack Womack
Robert Heinlein wrote a novella called If *This Goes On—* in the collection *Assignment in Eternity*. It’s not about the beginning of fascism, though. They’re already there. It’s what they do about it. It’s excellent.
Prophet Song
Winter of the World by Ken Follet.
Book two of “The Century Trilogy” – a historical fiction series that covers WW1 (book 1), WW2 (book 2) and the Cold War / civil rights (book 3) from various perspectives.
The series is one of my all time favorites and the lead up to WW2 is especially fascinating. The patriarch in one of the German families is in the German government and opposes the Nazi regime.
Highly recommend.
To some point; Franz Kafka’s “The Process”
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell
Its more during, but After The Revolution by Robert Evens is very good and you can listen to the book on spottily. Its after the US has been balkanized in another civil war.
Parable of the Sower is after societal collapse but the main character’s specific community collapses.
Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts (2011)
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich is a good one for that totalitarian govt backdrop. Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel and Severance by Ling Ma are good for societal collapse but not authoritarian govt.
It can’t happen here by Sinclair Lewis
War on the west by Douglas Murray.