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> > Wasn't Brave New World in the early 30s? I forget. Interesting about
> > Zamyatin... never heard of 'im.
> 
> Zamyatin's _We_ published 1924
> Huxley's _Brave New World_ published 1932
> Orwell's _1984_ published 1949
> 
> Info. on Zamyatin's _We_:
> 
> http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_zamyatin_we.html

interestingly enough, i encountered a reference to this book last 
night in something i was reading as an incidental amusement/learning: 
a biography of alexander solzhenitsyn by the pompous and moralistic 
but talented d.h. adams. as portrayed in this work, "we" is more of a 
political protest novel specifically geared at communism... part of 
the reason i don't respect 1984 as much as "brave new world" is that 
where 1984 takes aim at easy, iconographic targets, "brave new world" 
shows us the path to hell formed by good intentions, in a generalized 
sense. so, still an interesting volume, although claiming it's the 
basis of "brave new world" and 1984 requires more research :)

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