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The Dystopian Reader

Chapter 19

‘Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those that favour fire.’

-Robert Frost, “Fire and Ice”

‘If one were to ascribe a specific date to th

Chapter 5

‘The noise blooms into sleep, upwards and adrift through two worlds hearing footsteps sound on gravel, a laugh beneath the bedroom window as though a shadow had been let fly from a dream.’

Chapter 6

‘She places a refuse bag on the lid of the wheelie bin and looks up and down the street, the black bins have not been collected for three weeks, a gull is feeding from a black bag left against a wall, its side turned open by an anima

Chapter V

‘Syme had vanished. A morning came and he was missing from work: a few thoughtless people commented on his absence. On the next day nobody mentioned him.’

Part II

Chapter 1

‘It was the middle of the morning, and Winston had left his cubicle to go to the lavatory.
A solitary figure was coming towards him from the other end of the long, brightly-lit corridor. It was the girl with dark hair.&rsquo

VI Household

Chapter Fourteen

‘When the bell has finished I descend the stairs, a brief waif in the eye of glass that hangs on the downstairs wall. The clock ticks with its pendulum, keeping time; my feet in their neat red shoes count the way

Brave New World
Chapter III

‘Outside, in the garden, it was playtime. Naked in the warm June, six or seven hundred little boys and girls were running with shrill yells over the lawns, or playing ball games, or squatting silently in twos and th

Catechism

‘When did the twentieth-century nightmare begin?
In 1945, when, for many people, it seemed to have ended.
When did it begin?
With the first use of atomic bombs, developed with urgency to finish speedily a war that had gone on too l

A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Chapter 6
“Cambodia: Helpless Giant”

‘On April 17, 1975, eight years after Proxmire begin his campaign to get the United States to commit itself to prevent genocide, the Khmer R

The Next Age of Uncertainty-Stephen Poloz
Introduction

‘Uncertainty is everywhere, but especially when it comes to the economy. Concerned that the weather might disrupt weekend plans? There’s an app for that. But there’s no app for

Chapter 7

One Year Later

It is January 11 l, and I’ve only seen the water today in ephemeral glimpses as a train of mist plows in from the sea. The wind is rattling the storm shutters and the rain sheets continuously down the windows. I just

Chapter 6

We made it to St. Louis by nightfall, parked at a charge station, and went out in search of an open restaurant among all the shuttered storefronts.
The last remnant of the Gateway Arch - a teetering, seventy-foot spire wrapped in a skin o

Chapter Five

Doubled, I walked down the street. Though we are no longer in the Commander’s compound, there are large houses here also. In front of one of them a Guardian is mowing the lawn. The lawns are tidy, the façades are gracious,

Chapter 9: Bobbie

They sat in the galley, the same way they always did. Amos and Clarissa beside each other, Alex at the end of a table across from her. Holden a little apart, and Naomi closer to him than to the others. Bobbie felt the anxiety hummi

0012

I slept for over twelve hours and missed school entirely.
When I finally woke up, I rubbed my eyes and lay there in silence awhile, trying to convince myself that the events of the previous day had actually occurred. It all seemed like a dream

Chapter Nine

During business days, the meeting hall was some kind of a loft in which a coarse cloth made from processed seaweed was cut into smaller pieces for shipment to the retail outlets among the poorer sections. Now the centre of the floor had

Capítulo 6

Finalmente, acontecera. A mensagem, esperada chegara. Parecialhe que esperara toda a vida que aquilo acontecesse.
Caminhava pelo longo corredor no Ministério e estava quase a chegar ao sítio onde Julia Ihe passara o

Part 2 - I

It was the middle of the morning, and Winston had left his cubicle to go to the lavatory.
A solitary figure was coming towards him from the end of the long, brightly-lit corridor. It was the girl with dark hair. Four days had gone past si

Chapter 20
The End of Homo Sapiens

This book began by presenting history as the next stage in the continuum of physics to chemistry to biology. Sapiens are subject to the same physical forces, chemical reactions, and natural-selection processes that

Chapter 2

July 2030
Edwards Air Force Base

John Connor stood up in the open Humvee, raised the powerful binoculars to his eyes, and scoped what was left of the old Edwards Air Force Base and Cyber Research Systems facility on the desert east of L.A