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Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. [3] Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning ...
The superstates of Nineteen Eighty-Four have been compared by literary scholars to other dystopian societies such as those created by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Franz Kafka's The Trial, [48] B. F. Skinner's Walden II [49] and Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, [50] although Orwell's bleak 1940s-style London ...
Historia antipodum oder newe Welt, or History of the New World, by Matthäus Merian the Elder, published in 1631. The Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci is usually credited for coming up with the term "New World" (Mundus Novus) for the Americas in his 1503 letter, giving it its popular cachet, although similar terms had been used and applied before him.
Island is Huxley's utopian counterpart to his most famous work, the 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World. The ideas that would become Island can be seen in a foreword he wrote in 1946 to a new edition of Brave New World: If I were now to rewrite the book, I would offer the Savage a third alternative. Between the Utopian and primitive horns of ...
An Iroquois combat pilot finds himself in a world where the New World is underwater and Native Americans settled in Eastern Europe. 1967 The Gate of Worlds: Robert Silverberg: The Black Death of the 14th century kills three-quarters of the European population. Seven centuries later, the main powers are Russia, Turkey, the Aztecs, the Incas, and ...
Fantasy cartography, fictional map-making, or geofiction is a type of map design that visually presents an imaginary world or concept, or represents a real-world geography in a fantastic style. [1] Fantasy cartography usually manifests from worldbuilding and often corresponds to narratives within the fantasy and science fiction genres.
The Old Empire is a former world power to the west of the Union, now reduced to a patchwork of squabbling warlords all vying for the throne. Far Country is a near lawless frontier region to the north of the Old Empire and west of Starikland province. The books of the trilogy do not contain maps, as Abercrombie prefers not to use them. [15]
The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by the English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. Feminist critic Dale Spender calls it a forerunner of science fiction. [1] It can also be read as a utopian work. [2]