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You’ve been sucked in by The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner, but what about the classics? These weren’t the first books to delve into the “what ifs” of dystopia. If you’re digging these societies (at least, when they’re fictional), you should check out these books.

• Fahrenheit 451. In this book, books are not allowed. If any are found, they are burned. But what happens when you find a book and you don’t have it burned? It’s an interesting take on how society views books, and the power that they can bring you.

• Brave New World. Everyone is kept happy by a society that gives them - but are they really happy? They are molded into caste-like systems and raised to do jobs. There is no competitiveness, but there is also no real freedom.

• A Clockwork Orange. A teen talks about his violent adventures and his experience being “reformed” by the state; in the process, however, they take away his free will. He is then forced to face the effects of his decisions. The book questions the cost of actions.

• The Giver. This utopia turns out to really be a dystopia, as you learn that pain has been substituted for sameness, which keeps people from feeling true emotions. It makes you question where the line is drawn to protect people.

• Atlas Shrugged. Major industrialists have abandoned their industries due to new regulations, and they then begin to fail. It asks, “What is the role of man’s mind in existence?” With a focus on objectivism and capitalism, you’ll really think on this one.

There are others out there, such as 1984 and Battle Royale, so you’ve got a lot to satiate your appetite for a dismal future.

 

“You are a mean, violent, addicted to degrading man. And this is how I love you, this is what I want to feel more and more with every day I know you. We are creating together love that never existed before even deeply in our minds. I could never imagine such an intensive expressing of positive feelings. Usually negative emotions are stronger, having more potential to be expressed. Positive feelings are soft, kind and tender. But with you I feel demand for being humiliated in the most rough way, what makes all my previous beliefs ruined. And this is perfectly beautiful. With you I feel desire to be degraded, to be pushed to the level where the real woman should stay. The more you adore me, the more compliments you tell me, the higher you make my self-value during the day, the lower I will fall every night.”

“I’m done,” she whispered. The two words floated softly from her lips and then tumbled violently away as they freed her. POWER rolled off her now.

PREMISE: The Blender is always set to pulse. Pulse pounding! The Blender is an ultra-violent series about a PI who doesn’t settle disagreements with words or conventional weapons–he settles them with his blender. When you’ve got a problem and brute force is the only way out, call The Blender. He’ll blend up anyone giving you trouble. When The Blender is on the case, you’ll have to speak up in order to be heard over the noisy whirr of justice.

CHARACTERS: Dirk Throttler has an uncontrollable temper. He spent 20 years in prison for a series of brutal assaults, and when he got out, he swore he’d go straight. He landed an honest job at Smoothie Kingdom, but some thugs came around demanding protection money, and Throttler’s blind rage kicked in. He fought the goons off using the nearest weapon at hand: a blender. Realizing he would never be able to live the humble life of a peaceful smoothie maker, Throttler became The Blender. Now he uses his anger, and his newfound weapon of choice, to help the downtrodden and do good.

NOTABLE EPISODE: When a grieving mother hires him to investigate her son’s death, The Blender is drawn into the brutal world of underground bare-knuckle boxing. The Russian mobsters who run the fights get wise to The Blender’s investigation, and decide they need to take him out. Thrown into the ring with five ‘roided up bodybuilders, and surrounded by a crowd thirsty for blood, The Blender has no choice but to blend his way out. Fortunately he brought an extra-long extension cord. The ensuing fight was so bloody and violent, even the crowd at the bare knuckle boxing ring couldn’t stand to watch it (S08E.19 – “Holy Frappe”).

CATCHPHRASE:  “You’ve been blended.” / The ceaseless whirring of the blender.

TRIVIA/MISCELLANY: The Blender’s blender was an Osterizer Galaxie 457 manufactured in 1985–which megafans noted is not the model used at Smoothie Kingdom.

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