Which book's setting will the US most resemble in 20 years?

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Dhalgren by Samuel Delany or Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Parable of the Sower	3
Other (talk about your super likely future dystopia novel below)	2
Dhalgren	0

― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 02:15 (five years ago)

Tom Watson's 'The House', obviously.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 09:44 (five years ago)

Riddley Walker, but that might be optimistic.
& compressing the timescale .
BUt the Fox news watchers version of reality might rival the distortion.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 10:17 (five years ago)

None of them. Dystopias are usually a bad way of imagining the future.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 11:03 (five years ago)

I sure hope that Christopher Brown's Rule of Capture won't turn out to be very prophetic in the long run, but so far its extrapolation is proving more relentlessly plausible every day---talked about it recently on Rolling Speculative etc.

― dow, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 00:43 (five years ago)

voted Butler

― sleeve, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 00:45 (five years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 14 June 2020 00:01 (five years ago)

War With the Newts

― Greetings from CHAZbury Park (Lily Dale), Sunday, 14 June 2020 00:02 (five years ago)

We're already well on our way to Parable of the Sower. The Dhalgren world is a bit too reliant on the supernatural, unexplainable elements, whereas you could remove that stuff from Parable and still have mostly the same story.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 14 June 2020 04:39 (five years ago)

I voted Parable of the Sower, but only because this wasn't an option:
https://www.ft.com/content/2d222ae6-b993-11e7-bff8-f9946607a6ba

― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Sunday, 14 June 2020 14:56 (five years ago)

(link is to a review of https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/543957/american-war-by-omar-el-akkad/ )

― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Sunday, 14 June 2020 14:57 (five years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 15 June 2020 00:01 (five years ago)

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