... tales often become studies in survival. In Neuromancer (William Gibson, 1984) it is simply a question of staying alive; in Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1936) it is a question of staying human. In Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949) it becomes a matter of preserving individuality in the face of thought control. The hero (there are very few female heroines in traditional dystopian fiction) often faces utter ... embraced the new world. There is no desire to remember the lost world of humanity's past, a fact that is enforced by the distinct lack of biography the characters possess. ...

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