Ten satires to teach you to survive the future

At io9, Charlie Jane Anders tagged ten satirical novels that could teach you to survive the future.One novel on the list:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams' masterwork starts as a satire on bureaucracy — Arthur Dent's house is going to be demolished by a hidebound council, and then the same fate befalls the whole planet, thanks to the hideous Vogons. But H2G2 becomes a much broader