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Dystopia Eagerness (See ZEAL.) Brave New World Aldous Huxley’s grim picture of the future, where scientific and social developments have turned life into a tragic travesty. [Br. Lit.: Magill I, 79] inhabitants worship superficiality, unreason, inconsistency, and evasion: a lampoon of 19th-century society. [Br. Lit.: Erewhon in Haydn & Fuller, 239] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And Yew Choong Chan wrapped things up, with his distopian vision for London's Lower Lea Valley (the City's Olympic Village site), where he proposed the world's first Broccoli Power Plant, VEN (vertical energy). Starhawk calls readers to imagine how we might transform our present relations with each other and with the environment through juxtaposing utopian and distopian futures. By its frighteningly oppressive universe it also resembles the distopian story New Robinsons by Liudmila Petrushevskaia (Novye Robinsony, 1988). |
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