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A Frayed New World

Author : Damini Rana
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1685540279
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book A Frayed New World written by Damini Rana and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term ‘science fiction’ conjures an image of aliens, laser guns, and dystopia—a medley of wild, improbable scenarios and possibilities. As a literary genre, we can like it or hate it, but we can’t ignore the impact it has on our world, from influencing innovations to shaping public policy. While it may be easy to dismiss sci-fi as fantasy or imagination, it isn’t as easy to disregard the questions it raises around ethics and the societal impact of science. We can’t chase the futuristic ideas sci-fi introduces and disregard the warnings it delivers. To illustrate, tech giants today are committing billions of dollars to ‘Metaverse’, touting it as the next big thing. The idea was originally conceptualized in science fiction books—interestingly these presented a world where people are infatuated with virtual avatars, global tech corporations wield more power than governments and the quality of physical life has deteriorated. As we enter a phase where science of today is rapidly catching up with science fiction of yesterday, can we afford a que sera sera approach to our future? 'A Frayed New World' dives into some leading works of science fiction to highlight the importance of greater questioning and making deliberate, ethical choices as we design our future with science and technology.

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Author : David Rogers
Publisher : Dramatic Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aldous Huxley's Brave New World written by David Rogers and published by Dramatic Pub.. This book was released on 1970 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.

Brave New World: A Graphic Novel

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063055260
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Brave New World: A Graphic Novel written by Aldous Huxley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in graphic novel form for the first time, “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (Wall Street Journal) Aldous Huxley’s classic novel of authoritarianism Brave New World, adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham, the artist behind the graphic novel edition of To Kill A Mockingbird. Originally published in 1932, Brave New World is one of the most revered and profound works of twentieth century literature. Touching on themes of control, humanity, technology, and influence, Aldous Huxley’s enduring classic is a reflection and a warning of the age in which it was written, yet remains frighteningly relevant today. With its surreal imagery and otherworldly backdrop, Brave New World adapts beautifully to the graphic novel form. Fred Fordham’s singular artistic flair and attention to detail and color captures this thought-provoking novel as never before, and introduces it to a new generation, and countless modern readers, in a fresh and compelling way.

New Worlds for Old

Author : David Ketterer
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Worlds for Old written by David Ketterer and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brave New Worlds

Author : John Joseph Adams
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 159780455X
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Brave New Worlds written by John Joseph Adams and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are being watched. Your every movement is being tracked, your every word recorded. Your spouse may be an informer, your children may be listening at your door, your best friend may be a member of the secret police. You are alone among thousands, among great crowds of the brainwashed, the well-behaved, the loyal. Productivity has never been higher, the media blares, and the army is ever triumphant. One wrong move, one slip-up, and you may find yourself disappeared -- swallowed up by a monstrous bureaucracy, vanished into a shadowy labyrinth of interrogation chambers, show trials, and secret prisons from which no one ever escapes. Welcome to the world of the dystopia, a world of government and society gone horribly, nightmarishly wrong. What happens when civilization invades and dictates every aspect of your life? From 1984 to The Handmaid's Tale, from Children of Men to Bioshock, the dystopian imagination has been a vital and gripping cautionary force. Brave New Worlds collects the best tales of totalitarian menace by some of today's most visionary writers, including Neil Gaiman, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. When the government wields its power against its own people, every citizen becomes an enemy of the state. Will you fight the system, or be ground to dust beneath the boot of tyranny?

Deconstructing the New World Order

Author : Raymond Steiner
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781511851947
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing the New World Order written by Raymond Steiner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aspires to be the successor to Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World. In so doing, it probes more deeply into the totalitarian forces attempting to put a stranglehold on humanity. Advances in technology have made possible the construction of an all-encompassing cyber hive that threatens to ensnare and abolish individual autonomy.

WHEN THE SLEEPER AWAKES (A Dystopian Sci-Fi Classic)

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book WHEN THE SLEEPER AWAKES (A Dystopian Sci-Fi Classic) written by H. G. Wells and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When The Sleeper Awakes" is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. Presented here are the two unabridged editions – original and revised – of this great classic with all of their revisions and additions. H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was an English writer who was prolific in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.

Brave New World

Author : Robert S. Baker
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brave New World written by Robert S. Baker and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school. Presenting ideas that spark imaginations, these books help students to gain background knowledge on great literature useful for papers and exams. The goal of each study is to encourage creative thinking by presenting engaging information about each work and its author. This approach allows students to arrive at sound analyses of their own, based on in-depth studies of popular literature. Each volume: -- Illuminates themes and concepts of a classic text -- Uses clear, conversational language -- Is an accessible, manageable length from 140 to 170 pages -- Includes a chronology of the author's life and era -- Provides an overview of the historical context -- Offers a summary of its critical reception -- Lists primary and secondary sources and index

Deconstructing the New World Order

Author : Raymond Julius Steiner Ph. D.
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781729353776
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing the New World Order written by Raymond Julius Steiner Ph. D. and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aspires to be the successor to Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World. In so doing it probes more deeply into the totalitarian forces attempting to put a stranglehold on humanity. Advances in technology have made possible the construction of an all-encompassing cyberhive that threatens to ensnare and abolish individual autonomy.

Brave New World

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Salem Press
ISBN 13 : 9781619252387
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Brave New World written by M. Keith Booker and published by Salem Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of criticism presents a variety of new essays on Aldous Huxleys Brave New World, a classic in the science fiction and dystopian genres. These essays delve into the cultural, historical, comparative and critical contexts for understanding Brav

Brave New World

Author : Aislinn Goodman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438114427
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Brave New World written by Aislinn Goodman and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huxley's imaginatively futuristic novel, unprecedented at the time of its publication in 1932, warns of the dangers of sacrificing freedom and individuality for scientific progress and social stability.

Journey Into the Flame

Author : T. R. Williams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476713405
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Journey Into the Flame written by T. R. Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Celestine Prophecy comes the first book in a gripping post-apocalyptic trilogy involving the search for ancient books whose secrets hold the key to humanity’s survival. In 2027, the Great Disruption shook the world. An unexplained solar storm struck the earth, shifting it four degrees south on its axis. Everything went dark. Humanity was on the verge of despair. Then a man named Camden Ford discovered a set of ancient books called the Chronicles of Satraya. Thirty years later, the world is a different place. Thanks to the teachings of the Chronicles, hope has been restored, cities rebuilt, technology advanced. The books also have a different owner: Logan Cutler, who inherited them when Camden mysteriously disappeared. But when Logan auctions off the books to pay his debts, they fall into the wrong hands. The Reges Hominum, a clandestine group that once ruled history from the shadows, is launching a worldwide conspiracy to regain control. Soon Logan realizes he’s made a terrible mistake. With the help of special agent Valerie Perrot and the wisdom of the Chronicles as his guide, he embarks on an epic quest to get the books back before it’s too late. Abounding with questions about humanity’s secret past and its unknown future, Journey into the Flame will not only take you to the start of an incredible new world, it will also take you deep into the greater mysteries of the self.

The Book of Strange New Things

Author : Michel Faber
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0553418858
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Strange New Things written by Michel Faber and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental, genre-defying novel that David Mitchell calls "Michel Faber’s second masterpiece," The Book of Strange New Things is a masterwork from a writer in full command of his many talents. It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corporation known only as USIC. His work introduces him to a seemingly friendly native population struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter’s teachings—his Bible is their “book of strange new things.” But Peter is rattled when Bea’s letters from home become increasingly desperate: typhoons and earthquakes are devastating whole countries, and governments are crumbling. Bea’s faith, once the guiding light of their lives, begins to falter. Suddenly, a separation measured by an otherworldly distance, and defined both by one newly discovered world and another in a state of collapse, is threatened by an ever-widening gulf that is much less quantifiable. While Peter is reconciling the needs of his congregation with the desires of his strange employer, Bea is struggling for survival. Their trials lay bare a profound meditation on faith, love tested beyond endurance, and our responsibility to those closest to us. Marked by the same bravura storytelling and precise language that made The Crimson Petal and the White such an international success, The Book of Strange New Things is extraordinary, mesmerizing, and replete with emotional complexity and genuine pathos.

Future Perfect

Author : Howard Bruce Franklin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813521527
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Future Perfect written by Howard Bruce Franklin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics, science fiction writers, scientists, and scholars throughout the world hailed the original publication of Future Perfect in 1966 as a book that would transform our evaluation of science fiction and our understanding of American culture. The praise has proved well founded, for Future Perfect has been more responsible than any other single work for the recognition of the value and significance of science fiction.

Brand New World

Author : Anna Coudenys
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329633458
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Brand New World written by Anna Coudenys and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So I'm going to save the world after all." Strange and yet all too familiar, this Brand New World of ours. History has been twisted. Just a little. Just enough. Here we meet ugly duckling Dior Darling who uncovers a plot to do away with mankind effectively. Travelling around the world in search of clues, she gets entangled in world espionage, a love affair that isn't, survives an invasion of Aliens, and uncovers a truth she wishes she hadn't. A truth that will forever change life as we know it. Destruction, creation, and personal development are at the heart of this novel, in the eerily estranging way that defines the best science fiction

The New World

Author : Chris Adrian
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374712220
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The New World written by Chris Adrian and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative story of love, decapitation, cryogenics, and memory by two of our most creative literary minds Jorie has just received some terrible news. A phone full of missed calls and sympathetic text messages seem to indicate that her husband, Jim, a chaplain at the hospital where she works as a surgeon, is dead. Only, not quite—rather, his head has been removed from his body and cryogenically frozen. Jim awakes to find himself in an altogether unique situation, to say the least: his body gone but his consciousness alive, his only companion a mysterious, disembodied voice. In this surreal and unexpectedly moving work, Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz spin a tale of loss and adjustment, death and reawakening. Simultaneously fabulist and achingly human, The New World finds Jorie grieving the husband she knew while Jim wrestles with the meaning of life after death. Conceived in collaboration with Atavist Books, The New World interrogates love and loss in the digital era.

BRAVE NEW WORLD《美丽新世界》

Author : （英）阿道司．赫胥黎（Aldous Huxley）
Publisher : 四川人民出版社有限公司
ISBN 13 : 7220101759
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book BRAVE NEW WORLD《美丽新世界》 written by （英）阿道司．赫胥黎（Aldous Huxley） and published by 四川人民出版社有限公司. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 《美麗新世界》是英國作家阿道司·赫胥黎於1931創作並於1932發表的政治諷喻小說。該書主要描寫了機械文明下的未來社會中，人的「人」性被機械剝奪殆盡，處於「幸福」狀態的人們以幾種種姓產生於工業化的育嬰房，接受種種安於現狀的教育，熱愛機械化的工作與生活方式的未來生活。該小說影響巨大，與《一九八四》和《我們》並列為世界三大反烏托邦小說。 ◆「鯨歌英文原版」系列圖書第一輯，精選國內讀者耳熟能詳十本名著：《呼嘯山庄》《月亮和六便士》《簡·愛》《老人與海》《1984》《美麗新世界》《人性的弱點》《假如給我三天光明》《動物庄園》《飄》，以國外權威的出版社版本為參照，原版復制，精心編排，力求原汁原味還原外版圖書的風貌。這十本書文筆優美，閱讀難度不高，非常適合有一定外語閱讀能力的讀者首次入門接觸外國小說。阿道司·赫胥黎，以小說和大量散文作品聞名於世，也出版短篇小說、游記、電影故事和劇本。赫胥黎通過他的小說和散文充當着社會道德、標准和理想的拷問人與批評家。1932年創作的《美麗新世界》讓他名留青史。