Has Donald Trump ruined the dystopian novel? Let's hope not
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/aug/18/has-donald-trump-ruined-the-dystopian-novel-john-scalzi-handmaids-tale
"Sci-fi /sf!/ author John Scalzi has despaired at the impact on fiction of the
dramatic, lurid US presidency – but the best dystopias have emerged in the
toughest times.
First it was the literary authors, lambasted by Aleksandar Hemon in June 2016
for failing to take on the era of Trump in their fiction. Hemon had declined to
sign a letter denouncing Trump that more than 400 of his fellow authors had put
their names to, and wondered if their time might have been better spent
tackling the approaching election on the page. “One has a hard time recalling a
novel that has forcefully addressed the iniquities of the post-9/11 era,” he
wrote last summer. “Perhaps there is an author among the open letter
signatories eager to develop a narrative in which Trump … wouldn’t be the false
cause of our discontent but a symbol of an America struggling to forestall its
precipitous intellectual and political decline, to which the absence of its
literature from its politics must have contributed."
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