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Violence
Some
Moderate; conflict between labor and capital with action sequences
Language
Barely any
Mild period language; some class-based invective
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate; the psychological horror of a world where the basics of life are monetized
What this book is about
George Allan England's 1915 socialist science fiction novel imagines a capitalist cabal scheming to monopolize the Earth's oxygen supply and charge humanity for the right to breathe. One of the era's most explicitly political works of speculative fiction, The Air Trust was serialized in a socialist newspaper and reads as agitprop in novel form, with heroes representing labor and villains representing concentrated capital.
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Class conflict themes
Early corporate dystopia premise
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