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Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man. All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated...
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A depiction of life in London in 1984 under a totalitarian regime.
Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism. The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the "correction" of all records each time the "Big Brother" decided that the truth had changed.
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Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do ...
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Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs and...
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New York Times bestseller!
In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, futurist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of liberation—queerness, race, gender plurality, and love—become tangled with future possibilities
...7) Chimpanzee
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2014.
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English
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A high level of unemployment has destroyed the economy, resulting in record student loan defaults. In this dystopian landscape, the government has developed a method of taking back the knowledge gained from the loans. As Ben's education is gradually repossessed, the "Chimpanzee" protest movement grows ever stronger -- can the two be connected?
9) 1984
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"En el año 1984 Londres es una ciudad lúgubre en la que la Policía del Pensamiento controla de forma asfixiante la vida de los ciudadanos. Winston Smith es un peón de este engranaje perverso, su cometido es reescribir la historia para adaptarla a lo que el Partido considera la versión oficial de los hechos... hasta que decide replantearse la verdad del sistema que los gobierna y somete."--Amazon.
10) Our twisted hero
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Hyperion East
Pub. Date
[2001]
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First edition.
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122 pages ; 20 cm
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English
11) Visa for Avalon
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Paris Press
Pub. Date
2004.
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First Paris Press edition.
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xxii, 157 pages ; 21 cm
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English
13) Caliphate
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Baen Pub. Enterprises
Pub. Date
2008.
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385 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Children of the Last Days volume 3
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Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
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856 pages ; 21 cm
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English
16) Darkness at noon
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English
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Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.
17) Truancy origins
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Tor
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2009.
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First edition.
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382 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Relates how Truancy, an underground movement determined to bring down the Mayor's goal of control through education, began with the birth of twin boys who grew up to take divergent paths after being adopted by the Mayor.
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2023.
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"Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society's ills--the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single. But four couples are about to discover just how impossible relationships can be when the government is monitoring every aspect of our personal lives--monitoring every word, every minor disagreement ... and will use every tool in its...
19) The Iron Thorn
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Iron codex volume 1
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English
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In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted fifteen-year-old Aoife Grayson, whose family has a history of going mad at sixteen, must leave the totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic to solve the mystery of her brother's disappearance and the mysteries surrounding her father and the Land of Thorn.
20) Julia: a novel
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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First Mariner Books hardcover edition.
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385 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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In 1984, mechanic Julia Worthing, who works in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth, in one impulsive moment, sets in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story, in this imaginative, feminist and brilliantly relevant to-today journey through Orwell's now-iconic dystopia.
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