![]() ![]() The second has not happened but there are steps towards it. Jeff Bezos was born the year this book was first published. The first is the idea of the super-rich, the self-made kind, controlling the world. The book starts with a couple of issues, one of which has come to pass and the other seems to, be at least partially, moving in that direction (though many will disagree with me). This book is definitely in the latter category and, if we have any doubts, Huxley and Brave New World are referred to on several occasions. ![]() There are essentially two types of dystopian novel (yes, I know there are variations of these): the one where the future is grim and miserable, such as Nineteen Eighty-Four and the one where the future is not so grim but there are issues, such as loss of freedoms, as with Brave New World. The third, of course, is to consider the author’s forecast to be essentially wrong. The second is to see what might come to pass, even though it has not yet done so. Nineteen Eighty-Four, is to see what has actually come to pass or is very much like what has come to pass. The first, particularly with a book set in the author’s future but your past,e.g. When you read a dystopian novel set in the future, I think there are three possible reactions. Home » Catalonia » Llorenç Villalonga » Andrea Víctrix (Andrea Víctrix) Llorenç Villalonga: Andrea Víctrix (Andrea Víctrix) ![]()
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