![]() ![]() In all three works Wells laces vivid adventure stories with the latest ideas in biology and physics. The Chronic Argonauts, the original version of The Time Machine, pits a scientist with daring views of time and space against superstitious villagers. Arriving in the year 802,701, the Time-Traveller finds that humanity has evolved into two drastically different species going farther still, he witnesses the ultimate fate of the solar system. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking up two centuries later as the richest man in a world of new technologies, power-greedy leaders, sensual elites, and brutalised industrial slaves. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. With an Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow Nineteen Eighty-Four was Orwell's last novel but the world he created is always with us, as we find within it a mirror for our own times and a warning for the future.Ĭontains: The Time Machine, When the Sleeper Awakes and The Chronic Argonauts. ![]() Does 2+2=4? Or is it 5? We find out in Room 101. In Winston's battle to keep his freedom of thought, his powerful adversary O'Brien uses fear and pain to enter his very thought processes. Even the simple act of keeping a diary is punishable by death. No-one is free from surveillance the 'truth' is constantly altered and Big Brother controls all. Opposing them are the massed powers of the state. The principal characters are ordinary human beings like ourselves: Winston Smith and Julia, whose love is also an act of rebellion against the Party. Yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision of a totalitarian world. The Thought Police, doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - '1984' itself: these terms and concepts are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression. ![]()
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