Critical analysis of 1924 dystopian novel in terms of dialecticalism.
Evgenii Zamiatin’s work is a lens through which the issues pertaining to utopian literature can be examined. Zamiatin... More > established the cultural coordinates of dystopia in imaginative literature. Among the virtues of Zamiatin's novel are the tropes later to be found in the dystopian works following in the wake of Zamiatin. The dialectical perspective on We reflects the author’s intent and also the reason that We is the essential 20th century dystopia — in that the same dialectical process motivated the creation of the Soviet Union.< Less
Critical analysis of 1924 dystopian novel in terms of dialecticalism.
Evgenii Zamiatin’s work is a lens through which the issues pertaining to utopian literature can be examined. Zamiatin... More > established the cultural coordinates of dystopia in imaginative literature. Among the virtues of Zamiatin's novel are the tropes later to be found in the dystopian works following in the wake of Zamiatin. The dialectical perspective on We reflects the author’s intent and also the reason that We is the essential 20th century dystopia — in that the same dialectical process motivated the creation of the Soviet Union.< Less
Critical analysis of 1924 dystopian novel in terms of dialecticalism. Evgenii Zamiatin's work is a lens through which the issues pertaining to utopian literature can be examined. Zamiatin... More > established the cultural coordinates of dystopia in imaginative literature. Among the virtues of Zamiatin's novel are the tropes later to be found in the dystopian works following in the wake of Zamiatin. The dialectical perspective on We reflects the author's intent and also the reason that We is the essential 20th century dystopia - in that the same dialectical process motivated the creation of the Soviet Union.< Less
2042: Humanity has witnessed the World Democratic Revolution and has left war, pollution and extreme poverty behind.
Elise Archer is a hard-nosed British policewoman with psychic abilities. She also... More > happens to be a reincarnated terrorist in denial. When Peter Manner escapes from a local psychiatric hospital and begins a murder spree, Elise makes the chilling discovery that he too is a psychic ... and in another life he was her friend.
Manner is on his way to America, where he and she both mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. By complete coincidence the global police organisation GAILE has just reopened their case, and needs her help.
But is there such thing as a coincidence?
Follow Elise on her journey as she confronts the truth about her past life, why she was killed, and most importantly, why she was brought back to life.
Because soon she will come to question reality itself.
This is the story of the Systems Experiment, and the fight - literally - for liberty and justice.< Less
America’s death wasn’t the work of a foreign power; it happened by our own hand.
Torn apart by a violent racial-political Civil War, America has fractured from a United Republic into an... More > array of half functioning city-states under mixed forms of governance. In the Nation of Texas the onetime Lone Star State has degenerated into a lawless plutocracy, the result of an uneasy truce between the Texas Independents and Tea Party militants.
Duncan Anderson is a former tax attorney who wanders the charred remains of this once proud land, scraping by in existence through collecting recyclable materials. He is neither warrior nor slave; leader nor believer. He is but one man keeping his solitary distance from the bestial madness of the New World, standing silent vigil in hope that order will return again to the land.
He is to be sorely disappointed.< Less
When government officials are required to steer the economy, they achieve their goal only partially.
So they elaborate and enforce norms to reduce the unsuccess.
But they keep being unsuccessful... More > somehow.
In response new norms follow.
Ever and ever.
The persistent creation of norms progressively cripples freedom.
With the religious consent of the populace and under the advice of the controllers, unfreedom spreads and is maintained.< Less
In a world gone mad it's cheaper to lock up the sane as dangers to the state. In this dystopian novel an escapee from a sane asylum finds love, but life in an insane society takes its toll.
In a world gone mad it's cheaper to lock up the sane as dangers to the state. In this dystopian novel an escapee from a sane asylum finds love, but life in an insane society takes its toll.
