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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Think about it this way, a public poll is a specific choice to shed a layer of anonymity. 
@pdurrant -- suggest something to me? My knowledge of books written before at least ~1950-60 is rather sketchy. A problem, I know  perhaps this is the right opportunity to amend that.
I mainly read Sci-Fi/Fantasy, although I do enjoy mysteries as well -- Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes (that's the one I read).
And I can't stand books with animals as the characters. |
Okay, what about Kafka's The Trial? Have you read it? It's in the 1920's voting period, and whilst this book very likely isn't normally associated with sci-fi, Kafka bends time and space with great particularity in order to tell the story.
And one of the major themes, justice, is as totally relevant today as it was at the time of writing (circa 1913).
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One of my comments to self was that Kafka must have been seeing little green fairies* at the time of devising various scenes in the book, and again at the time of writing other aspects.
(*after absinthe consumption)