From Fahrenheit 451 to High Castle: How Five Presidents Burned the American People This is a comparison, and perhaps the first, systematic one, of the legislative-executive structures of five successive presidents of the United States with the dystopian fiction that each president embodies most directly. By Katherine Smith, PhD Premise The argument is this: Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Joe Haldeman, Robert Heinlein, and Philip K. Dick were not writing fiction.