Kurt Vonnegut is best known for his novels.
But, his literary prowess shone brightest in his short stories. Harrison Bergeron is one of the greatest pieces of science fiction I've ever read.
I experienced it for the first time in the seventh grade.
Harrison is a fourteen-year-old boy living in an alternate future where everyone is equal—because they’re hindered to be equal.
If you were good-looking, you wore a mask. If you were strong, you wore scrap metal and bags filled with birdshot. If you were intelligent, you wore a mental handicap radio that let out a deafening squelch everytime your thoughts reached above a certain frequency.