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Once I learned of the existence of mothers, I decided to order one for myself.
We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.
“You used terms such as revolutionaries. Comrades. And, most illegally of all: lovers. Unmarried people who fuck each other without the goal of childrening. Well, I was sunk.” A tale of forbidden love in an age when corporations have replaced government.
He will surprise her on the anniversary of the end.
“I wanted his body to begin and end elsewhere, at home, meaning his home, wherever that was, meaning even I, whose job was to include him, wanted him out.”
Eventually, it became obvious that we didn’t have a mission. Or our mission, for what it’s worth, was the lack thereof.
“The intake process begins with dismantling her personal space, one mantle at a time.”
From invading Afghanistan to dismantling Confederate monuments, George Orwell has been pressed into the service of all sorts of causes. But the real Orwell remains unknown.
So the thing about the Death Squads is that their outfits are super cute.
Every word is Trademarked™, Restricted® or Copyrighted©. Why was this something to celebrate?
Junot Díaz interviews Margaret Atwood about The Handmaid's Tale, political dystopias, and Drake.
A new generation of young Polish novelists has turned to dystopia to express Poland's cultural and economic contradictions.
“I’m known as a sex radical, but the fact is I felt there was a world of experience that had been slipping away.”
A new biography of Norman Bel Geddes, designer of the Futurama, tells the story of American innovation.
Celebrated dystopian novelist Paul Kingsnorth talks surviving the collapse of civilization as we know it.
Let's all move to the moon.
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