The earrings aren't mandated, to be sure, but I bet a lot of people would see a society with forced contraception as dystopic. But you're right, it doesn't come across as one because it's much better thought out than all these one-note dystopias. (It actually seems like a decent enough place to live, all things considered.)
One could probably write a much better dystopian novel by taking a society like Beta and making it a little bit worse in just the right ways.
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Date: 2011-05-31 06:37 pm (UTC)One could probably write a much better dystopian novel by taking a society like Beta and making it a little bit worse in just the right ways.