Go ahead: name the three great dystopian novels of the twentieth century. Well, of course, there's George Orwell's 1984… and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World… and… and…. The book that always falls off the list is Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World. Published in 1907 — and still in print — it is the precursor of those later dystopias, but it is also unique. Where Orwell saw the future primarily through the prism of politics and Huxley primarily through the prism of science, Benson sees the future primarily through the prism of religion — and of where religion and … Continue reading Apocalypse Now