The Iron Heel

paperback, 242 Seiten

Am 7. Mai 2008 von Forgotten Books veröffentlicht.

ISBN:: 978-1-60620-185-5

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.

3 Auflagen

cblgh@bookwyrm.social hat The Iron Heel von Jack London besprochen

5 Sterne

Really 'good dystopia' novel considering it was written in 1908! Good introduction to socialist thought at the time. Turns into a captivating adventure narrative after the half-way point.

Way way way too unknown imo - recommended read! Inflating the review stars because of this in fact :)

Really 'good dystopia' novel considering it was written in 1908! Good introduction to socialist thought at the time. Turns into a captivating adventure narrative after the half-way point.

Way way way too unknown imo - recommended read! Inflating the review stars because of this in fact :)

loppear hat The Iron Heel von Jack London besprochen

This was a thorough surprise

4 Sterne

How much did I like this for how early it is, how much for how timely it is? Surprisingly modern throughout, a dystopia written in 1908 as the personal account of a Socialist revolution lived and crushed in 1930s America and the occasional future footnote revealing hundreds of years of subsequent fascist rule by The Oligarchy. Opens very didactically on the need for worker solidarity to oppose the corporate trusts squeezing and setting against each other all below, but turns to an increasingly gripping and grim account - reminiscent of For Whom The Bell Tolls in ways - of state repression and underground rebellion and counter-maneuver.