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March 16, 2021

Books 11-20: A Ranking

Rankings 1984, Alfred Bester, Big Brother, censorship, doublethink, dystopia, Espers, Fahrenheit 451, Farmer in the Sky, Foundation, George Orwell, I Robot, Isaac Asimov, justice, mass media, overexposition, penal system, precrime, psychohistory, Ray Bradbury, Red Planet, Robert A. Heinlein, Space Cadet, The Demolished Man, The Martian Chronicles, The Three Laws of Robotics, Thought Police, utopia, worldbuilding

My ranking of books 11-20 on my list. The best and worst might not be what you think.

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October 30, 2017

Book 13: 1984

Book Reviews doublethink, dystopia, George Orwell, historical negation, novels, Thought Police

1984 is a must-read for everyone!

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September 21, 2016

Book 7: Brave New World

Book Reviews Aldous Huxley, civilization, dysgenics, dystopia, eugenics, free will, human nature, novels, science fiction, worldbuilding

Behold my review of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the seventh book on my list of the best science fiction books of all time.

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July 11, 2016

Book 6: R.U.R.

Book Reviews dystopia, free will, freedom, human nature, Karel Capek, labour, playing God, production, progress, robots, science fiction, slavery, work

My review of the amazing R.U.R., the first story to make use of the word robot!

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May 16, 2016

Utopia/Dystopia

Sci-Fi Themes dystopia, free will, freedom, human nature, post-utopia, utopia

Today I’d like to talk a little bit about the post-utopian theme found in The Time Machine (and other sci-fi stories of course). 

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