Who wrote the 1953 novel about a postliterate society?
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Postliterate society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society in which multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read or write, is no longer necessary or common. The term appears as early as 1962 in Marshall McLuhan's "The Gutenberg Galaxy". Many science-fiction societies are postliterate, as in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", Dan Simmons' novel "Ilium", and Gary Shteyngart's "Super Sad True Love Story".
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Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in 1953. It is regarded as one of his best works. The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The book's tagline explains the title: "Fahrenheit 451 – the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns..."
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A Man of the People A Man of the People (1966) is the fourth novel by Chinua Achebe. This satirical novel is a story told by the young and educated narrator, Odili, on his conflict with Chief Nanga, his former teacher who enters a career in politics in an unnamed modern African country. Odili represents the changing younger generation; Nanga represents the traditional customs of Nigeria. The book ends with a military coup, similar to the real-life coups of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Yakubu Gowon.
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The Bull's Hour The Bull's Hour ( Russian: Час Быка , "Chas Byká") is a social science fiction novel written by Soviet author and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov in 1968. Six months after its publication Soviet authorities banned the book and attempted to remove it from libraries and bookshops after realizing that it contained a sharp criticism of the current state of affairs in the USSR disguised as a critique of "Capitalism" and Chinese-style communism of that time.
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The Salvaging of Civilization The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind is a non-fiction work by H. G. Wells which addresses the possibility of a future world state. It was published by The Macmillan Company of New York, for the first time in 1921.
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The Living and the Dead (White novel) The Living and the Dead is a novel by Australian Nobel Prize laureate Patrick White, his second published book (1941). It was written in the early stages of World War II whilst the author alternated between the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Attack from Atlantis Attack From Atlantis (1953) is a science fiction novel written by Lester del Rey. The story follows the new "U.S.S. Triton" submarine on her maiden voyage, but trouble happens when the crew comes face to face with the inhabitants of the underwater city Atlantis.
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The Thaw (Ehrenburg novel) The Thaw (Russian: Оттепель , Ottepel) is a short novel by Ilya Ehrenburg first published in the spring 1954 issue of "Novy Mir". It coined the name for the Khrushchev Thaw, the period of liberalization following the 1953 death of Stalin. The novel marked a break both from Ehrenburg's earlier purely pro-Soviet work, and from previous ideas about socialist realism.
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Mary and the Giant Mary and the Giant is an early, non-science fiction novel written by Philip K. Dick in the years between 1953 and 1955, but not published until 1987.
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Empire (Vidal novel) Empire is the fourth historical novel in the "Narratives of Empire" series by Gore Vidal, published in 1987.
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Death into Life Death into Life is a 1946 novel by Olaf Stapledon. Not strictly science fiction (the genre into which Stapledon's works are usually classified), the novel is described as "an imaginative treatment of the problem of survival after death". It deals primarily with the soul of a rear gunner who is killed in World War II, and who finds himself surviving his apparent death - first as part of a spirit bomber-crew, then as part of the spirits who were killed in the battle, and so on until finally his soul becomes part of a 'cosmical spirit'.
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Our Plundered Planet Our Plundered Planet is a book published in 1948 that was written by Fairfield Osborn about environmental destruction by humankind. The book is a critique of humankind's poor stewardship of Earth. It typifies the earliest apocalyptic environmental literature, in which human beings are seen as destroyers of the natural world.
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The Forgotten Planet The Forgotten Planet is a science fiction novel by American writer Murray Leinster. It was released in 1954 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies. The novel is a fix-up from three short stories, "The Mad Planet" and "The Red Dust", both of which had originally appeared in the magazine "Argosy" in 1920 and 1921, and "Nightmare Planet", which had been published in "Science Fiction Plus" in 1953.
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Five Go Down to the Sea Five Go Down To The Sea is the twelfth novel in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1953.
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Prelude to Space Prelude to Space is a science fiction novel written by British author Arthur C. Clarke in 1947. It appeared for the first time in 1951 in magazine format by World Editions Inc, as number three in the series "Galaxy Science Fiction". Sidgwick & Jackson published it in novel form for the British readership in 1953, followed the next year by a United States hardcover edition from Gnome Press and a paperback from Ballantine Books.
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Thirsty God "Thirsty God" is a science fiction story by Margaret St. Clair, first published in Fantasy and Science Fiction for March 1953 and collected in St. Clair's "Change the Sky and Other Stories" (1974). The story can be seen as a kind of morality fable concerning rape and its punishment.
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The Mystery of Holly Lane The Mystery of Holly Lane is a 1953 mystery novel by English author, Enid Blyton and the eleventh book in Enid Blyton's Mystery Series featuring the Five Find-Outers.
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In the Days of the Comet In the Days of the Comet (1906) is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells in which humanity is "exalted" when a comet causes "the nitrogen of the air, the old "azote"," to "change out of itself" and become "a respirable gas, differing indeed from oxygen, but helping and sustaining its action, a bath of strength and healing for nerve and brain." The result: "The great Change has come for evermore, happiness and beauty are our atmosphere, there is peace on earth and good will to all men."
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The Planet of Youth The Planet of Youth is a science fiction novel by Stanton A. Coblentz. It was first published in book form in 1952 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 600 copies, of which 300 were hardback. The novel originally appeared in the October 1932 issue of the magazine "Wonder Stories".
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After Man After Man: A Zoology of the Future (1981, ISBN  ) is a 1981 book by the Scottish geologist and author, Dougal Dixon. In it, he presents his hypothesis of various organisms apparent after a mass extinction succeeding our own time.
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The Golden Man "The Golden Man" is an 11,600-word science fiction novella by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was received by the Scott Meredith Literary Agency on June 24, 1953, and first published in the April 1954 issue of "If" magazine. The story was illustrated by Kelly Freas in its original publication. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future where the existence of potentially powerful mutants has become a reality. The mutants are seen as dangerous and have been hunted to death by human beings for years. A golden-skinned mutant called Cris is captured by the government, which attempts to execute him. However, his appearance and abilities to see into the future allow him to escape.
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Untamed Women Untamed Women is a 1952 United States science fiction film written by George Wallace Sayre and directed by W. Merle Connell. An American bomber pilot is rescued after drifting at sea during World War II. He tells doctors how he and three of his fellow crash survivors washed up on an island inhabited by dinosaurs and a tribe of druid-descended cave-women who are being plagued by Neanderthal men intent on kidnapping them for breeding purposes. In 1986, the movie was featured in an episode of the "Canned Film Festival".