Masters of Despair analyzes one hundred years of dystopian fiction from: We, 1924; Brave New World, 1943; Darkness at Noon, 1932; Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949; Fahrenheit 451, 1953; The Man in the High Castle, 1962, The Handmaid''s Tale, 1986. The Road, 2006 and others.