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This book was first published in 1962. That makes it one of the earliest dystopias I know about, though written more than a decade after Orwell's 1984. The author describes it as "a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce." Early on, a main character, a historian, describes the way society continually goes through cycles (which he names Pelagian and Augustinian), and over the course of the book, the society actually morphs through both of those as well as some inter
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