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SCI-FI: BRAVE NEW WORLD

When it comes to dystopian classics, it has been argued that the world has turned out more like Aldous Huxley’s from 1932 than George Orwell’s from 1949, despite the bump in sales the latter got during the Trump era. Aft er all, Huxley wrote about a revolution in attitudes to sex and reproduction. His idea that everything about everyone should be shared anticipated Facebook and a

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