Her brown eyes crinkled at the edges as she smiled at Jess. The woman’s face was prematurely aged, her brown hair streaked liberally with gray. “Drink it slow,” an unfamiliar face in the crowd swam into focus. Life goes on, one day at a time, and by the skin of our teeth and the force of our will, we will continue. We have found a way to live on…in a world where ghosts haunt us and memories whisper in our ears. And this is our story, my story, and the story of us all. What was left in the wreckage of the world that was? We were. It was a slow, painful end, an extended death rattle, as we slowly tore ourselves apart, and then allowed others to finish off what remained. The world we had known, the nation that our parents had been told to be proud of, a place of fast food and ‘freedom fries’, home of the consumer, center of capitalism, world leader, it all ceased to exist. For our hypocrisy, for our crimes, we each paid such a terribly high price. In retrospect I can feel no real surprise for what happened next. We bullied, we pushed, we invaded…and when we were done, when the world had felt our presence in every corner of it, felt our hand on their backs, shoving our way into every aspect of their lives, faiths, even their very existence…we were hated. 'A grave warning.Copyright © 2014 Christine D.

The consequences are profound and.deeply disturbing' John Humphries, Sunday Times 'What Aldous Huxley presented as fiction with the human hatcheries of Brave New World has become fact. WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAW Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress.

Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwoodįar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. 'The best science fiction book ever, definitely the most prescient.' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian classic Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future, which feels ever closer to our new reality.

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