... are almost always much more powerful than the rebels. Consequently, dystopian 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 ... intellectual detachment, and short on "real life" drama, but that does not necessarily have to be a bad thing. It is also an interesting contrast to the majority of dyst...

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... an old one; and it is a concern that will certainly stay with librarians into the new millennium. The book Brave New World is author Huxley's shocking vision of a future utopia, which deals with the philosophical and ethical controversies brought by advances in technology and science. Religion has been replaced by worship of Science; instead of Lord, they have Ford. Human reproduction has become a mass ... science itself. The Consumer Society. It is important to understand that Brave New World is not simply a warning about what could happen to society if things go wrong, it is also a sa...

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