Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction …
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction …
And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction …
the Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts; the Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war; the Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order; and the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty.
Imagine the WORLD AT STAKE. An EPIC STRUGGLE between good and evil. The GREATEST QUEST …
It was also time to elect the president and VP of the OASIS User Council, but that was a no-brainer. Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.
— Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One)
Imagine the WORLD AT STAKE. An EPIC STRUGGLE between good and evil. The GREATEST QUEST …
“It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity,” he wrote. “A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.”
— Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One)
Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new …
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy …
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 1979 science fiction comedy novel by English author Douglas Adams, adapted from …
In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, …
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy …
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in …
It's much easier to understand how limited you are when you look at someone even more limited.
The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, …
Imagine the WORLD AT STAKE. An EPIC STRUGGLE between good and evil. The GREATEST QUEST in history. The FATE OF …
Lessig details the history of copyright law as it pertains to digital media, how it has affected creativity and expression …