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World Made by Hand: A Novel
In the best-seller The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. With World Made By Hand Kunstler makes an imaginative leap into the future, a few decades hence, and shows us what life may be like after these coming catastrophes—the end of oil, climate change, global pandemics, and resource wars—converge. For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they thought it would be. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy. And the outside world is largely unknown. There may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren’t sure. As the heat of summer intensifies, the residents struggle with the new way of life in a world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields and rivers replenished with fish. A captivating, utterly realistic novel, World Made by Hand takes speculative fiction beyond the apocalypse and shows what happens when life gets extremely local. .
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America 2014: An Orwellian Tale
Picture a totalitarian United States just ten years from now: With no end in sight to the War on Terror, a fourth-term President George Blush rules without restraint. The Constitution has been replaced with a "Patriotic Citizen's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" and America has been renamed "God's United States." The Blush Administration has finally "freed" America of its "treasonous" opposition party, "subversive" media and "obstructionist" judges. In this starkly terrifying political thriller, Winston Smith is a young, successful producer of patriotic commercials for the Department of Homeland Security. While working to fulfill his dream of making a contemporary film version of 1984, he runs afoul of government censors, is forced to stand trial in a nightmarish courtroom, and faces brutal execution in a privatized prison. Rescued by a mysterious, powerful young woman and a band of teenage computer hackers, he joins the Resistance and becomes swept up in a deadly struggle to undermine his government's stranglehold on power and information. As it conjures up a frightening - and highly controversial - vision of the future, Dawn Blair's gripping novel of American dystopia lays bare the most incendiary political issues of the present day..
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Zulu Victor Bravo
George Orwell had this to say about themes that touch on the political Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole
This is not a political book but it does ask questions about the nature of tyranny and the role of prophets in our future. Benedict Vilakazi, a Zulu poet, urges his readers to honour their own heritage, to build on what has been built before rather than destroy. He is wary of prophets who seek believers as against those unbelievers who strive to look after themselves. His eternal theme is played out in the bowl of southern Africa, from Black Rock, where turtles still nest on the beachas they have done for over a million years. .
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Orwellian Ireland
Inspired by the book Stasiland, this work is an attempt to see if some of the state practices that flourished in Communist Eastern Europe might be replicated in modern Ireland It goes into the question of intelligence agencies, what agencies are active in Ireland, how they harass dissidents, their use of modern technology and their role in secretly supporting paramilitary groups in Ireland and around the world. It includes a lot of first hand testimony of state harassment, and even torture, which is on a par with what happened in countries like East Germany. Finally it concludes with some searching questions about the real government policies being pursued in Ireland..
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Baghdad Becomes The Launch Pad For Bush's Orwellian Flight; Some Say 'Back To Rome'.: An article from: APS Diplomat News Service
This digital document is an article from APS Diplomat News Service, published by Pam Stein/Input Solutions on September 9, 2002. The length of the article is 1503 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Baghdad Becomes The Launch Pad For Bush's Orwellian Flight; Some Say 'Back To Rome'. Publication:APS Diplomat News Service (Newsletter) Date: September 9, 2002 Publisher: Pam Stein/Input Solutions Volume: 57 Issue: 11 Page: NA Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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