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[prozak at anus.com]

> > I think it's impossible to read 1984 without reading its predecessor,
> > "Brave New World"
> 
> Both - Orwell particularly - owe a huge debt to Yevgeny Zamyatin's _We_.
> Also of relevance & interest (utopian and anti-utopian fiction):
> 
> Jack London, _The Iron Heel_
> E.M. Forster, 'The Machine Stops'
> H.G. Wells, _The Sleeper Awakes_ (also _The Time Machine, _Men Like Gods_,
> _A Modern Utopia_ etc)
> Samuel Butler, _Erewhon_
> William Morris, _News From Nowhere_
> Edward Bellamy, _Looking Backward_
> Thomas More, _Utopia_
> Gulliver, Plato etc.
> 
> Even Ayn Rand, _Anthem_.

You discredited your reading list completely with the last item, in 
my view. Authors need to learn to walk before they can run, and in a 
philosophical sense, Ayn Rand is barely crawling :)

However, the others look great (being particularly a fan of H.G. 
Wells). I'd add dystopia-utopia books like Neuromancer for the hell 
of it.



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