Part Six of Advanced Science Fiction & Fantasy: writing the 21st century myth
The twentieth century produced two great visions of dystopia. George Orwell’s 1984 is still the most terrifying depiction of totalitarian control ever depicted, a nightmare future of surveillance, torture and mind control.
Aldous Huxley’s dystopia shows us a future of pleasure and beauty that many would call utopia. But beneath the glittering surfaces of this Brave New World are levels of control terrifyingly similar to our 21st century reality.
The sixth part of Writing the 21st Century Myth explores the political modelling that powered Orwell and Huxley’s classics of science fiction.
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Advanced Scifi & Fantasy
Part Six
Brave New World vs 1984
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