The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first
published in 1908.
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.
The book is uncommon among London's writings (and in the literature of the
time in general) in being a first-person narrative of a woman protagonist
written by a man.
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