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The Iron Heel
by Jack London
First Published
2009
Subjects
Revolutions, fiction
Oligarchy, fiction
Utopias, fiction
Revolutionaries, fiction
Dysyopias, fiction
Science Fiction
Socialism, fiction
Classic Literature
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Fiction, political
Fiction, historical
United States, fiction
Political fiction
Description
Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes.