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1. FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel FAHRENHEIT 451 was a response to some of the major concerns of World War II, with future society depicted as having evolved into a diet of mass media and literal sedation under a regime of censorship and book burning. This le...
2. BRAVE NEW WORLD By Aldous Huxley   Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel BRAVE NEW WORLD raised controversy when it was first published, and the debate has barely changed in all this time.  Frequently challenged with banning attempts, the novel depicts a future of conspicuous consumpt...
3. The Anarchist Cookbook THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK is one of the most protested and banned books in the history of modern publishing.  Even the author has periodically denounced and decried his own work.  There is a lot of debate to both sides of the discussion about...
4. 1984 by George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (a pseudonym for english author Eric Arthur Blair) was first published June 8, 1949 by Secker and Warburg, now an imprint of Random House Publishing. This lense will contain spoilers. A dystopian novel, 1984 focu...
5. [The Tailypo: A Ghost Story] Tailypo! Tailypo! Where is my Tailypo? Tailypo! Tailypo! I'm coming for my Tailypo! What child of the 1970's doesn't remember this spooky and terrifying tale of a ghost cat? --This lens is still under construction
6. William Burroughs' NAKED LUNCH On July 7, 1966, the Supreme Court of the state of Massachusetts cleared William S. Burrough's novel NAKED LUNCH of obscenity charges, reversing an earlier Superior Court decision. They stated that Burroughs frank descriptions of drug use and graphic...
7. THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION by J.G. Ballard In 1967 Nelson Doubleday supposedly ordered the entire first print run of J.G. Ballard's novel ATROCITY EXHIBITION destroyed after reading the short story "Why I Want To F*^& Ronald Regan." The book was then released two years later by a...