I'm looking for books (or other media types of the same story style) that read like warnings/cautionary tales regarding society and politics at the time they were written — but they now feel more like current events or like they're being used as a guidebook to oppression.
I would include examples of this kind of story as books like "Fahrenheit 451," "A Handmaid's Tale," "1984," and "It Can't Happen Here"; and films with stories like "Wag The Dog," and "Don't Look Up."
TIA!!
by Fingerpuns
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Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler. Its a pretty tough read right now.
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck. Also part 2 of America and Americans which contains the Op/Eds Dubious Battle In CA, The Harvest Gypsies, and Starvation under the Orange Trees.
In the sci fi series The Chance of a Realtime (the first book titled A Shock to the System), a young American man is kidnapped from 1972 by time travelers. He gets to peruse lots of future history in their archives, and is shocked and disbelieving of learning about America becoming Nazified in the decades ahead.
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
*The World Set Free* by H. G. Wells.
You know thats what the original fairy tales were? Not kids stories, moral adult tales. Rather more violent and nasty than the disney versions.