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The Iron Heel is a dystopian[1] novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern dystopian" fiction,[2] it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and '70s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes