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Everyone knows the core texts of the dystopian fiction are 1984, Fahrenheit 451, brave new world, and a handmaid's tale.
Without these texts you cannot begin talking out of your ass about how you know things can get to bad places.
Certainly don't talk about more recent speculative fiction, and never mind that many of these authors' used actual historical examples to inform their fiction about how things could end up, talking about history is boring!
Now talking about a book you haven't read, that's where it's at. Especially when no one has read it and we can all collectively act like we have from seeing Simpsons and Futurama parodies of them.
When I first wrote brave new world, it corrected to brace new world, and oh what a world that would be
it's just so bizarre, the groupings are (generously) barely coherent. At best this is like reading tea leaves.