By Ken MacLeod
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The compelling new novel from the award-winning writer of THE EXECUTION CHANNEL and THE evening SESSIONS
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Imagine a near-future urban, say London, the place scientific technology has complicated past our personal and a single-dose tablet has been built that, taken while pregnant, eradicates many universal genetic defects from an unborn baby. desire Morrison, mom of a hyperactive four-year-old, is looking ahead to her moment baby. She refuses to take The repair, because the tablet is understood. This divides her friends and family and places her and her husband at risk of imprisonment or worse. Is her choice a personal topic of person selection, or is it tantamount to willful overlook of her unborn baby? A believable and unique novel with sinister echoes of 1984 and courageous New World.
About the Author
Since graduating from Glasgow collage in 1976, Ken MacLeod has labored as a working laptop or computer analyst in Edinburgh. He now writes full-time.
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But what about those situations, now of such frequent occurrence, in which good means have end results which turn out to be bad? For example, we go to a tropical island and with the aid of DDT we stamp out malaria and, in two or three years, save hundreds of thousands of lives. This is obviously good. But the hundreds of thousands of human beings thus saved, and the millions whom they beget and bring to birth, cannot be adequately clothed, housed, educated or even fed out of the island’s available resources.
Recent developments in Russia and recent advances in science and technology have robbed Orwell’s book of some of its gruesome verisimilitude. A nuclear war will, of course, make nonsense of everybody’s predictions. But, assuming for the moment that the Great Powers can somehow refrain from destroying us, we can say that it now looks as though the odds were more in favor of something like Brave New World than of something like 1984. In the light of what we have recently learned about animal behavior in general, and human behavior in particular, it has become clear that control through the punishment of undesirable behavior is less effective, in the long run, than control through the reinforcement of desirable behavior by rewards, and that government through terror works on the whole less well than government through the non-violent manipulation of the environment and of the thoughts and feelings of individual men, women and children.
Brave New World was written before the rise of Hitler to supreme power in Germany and when the Russian tyrant had not yet got into his stride. In 1931 systematic terrorism was not the obsessive contemporary fact which it had become in 1948, and the future dictatorship of my imaginary world was a good deal less brutal than the future dictatorship so brilliantly portrayed by Orwell. In the context of 1948, 1984 seemed dreadfully convincing. But tyrants, after all, are mortal and circumstances change.