Last week, as the US inaugurated its new President, the phrase "alternative facts" hit the headlines. As spokesmen for the new administration started putting out revisionist accounts of recent events, comparisons were made with George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Within hours, Orwell's dystopian novel saw booming sales - and in its wake, other classic dystopias such as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 also rose up the sales charts.
Read more on this turn of events here:
http://www.inquisitr.com/3931617/dystopian-novels-top-sellers-after-donald-trump-presidency-with-george-orwell-aldous-huxley-and-ray-bradbury-topping-charts/
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