Heinlein wrote of a dictatorship rising in the US about now. It was the reason Lazarus Long took the Howard families off world. Tho life didn't end on Earth it just got real bad.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Heinlein wrote of a dictatorship rising in the US about now.

The B-plot of Orsen Scott Card's "Ender's Game" was Ender's older brother and sister gaming the two party system via the internet and posting their way into the Presidency. If Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had been siblings, it would have been a near perfect reflection of real life.

[–] btsax@reddthat.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Octavia Butler wrote The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents in the early 90s, set in a declining United States around 2024-2030 run by a Christian nationalist whose slogan was "Make America Great Again"

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Did it have a label on the cover saying it was supposed to be fiction? Maybe the people "in charge" though it was a fortune teller saying like it is.