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Book about escaping dystopia
I am looking for a book for my mum that she can't remember the name of.
Details:
The people lived in pod like rooms.
Fed by pills
Escape by a shoot.
They do that by working out the pods.
Set in the ...
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Did Jack London influence "We"?
Summary: Did Jack London's dystopian novel, The Iron Heel, published in 1908, influence Zamyatin's We?
Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel, We, completed in 1921 and published in English in 1924, is one of the ...
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Dystopian future, an old novel where everyone only has a three day memory? [duplicate]
I'm trying to find the name and/or author of a story I read in the 1990s (I think) about a future where everyone takes 'memory loss' pills. It means you only remember three days of short term stuff, ...
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A kind of 1984 remake, in an Internet based society
I am looking for the title and author of a specific novel, a social dystopia that sort of takes after 1984, but takes place on the Internet where some Big Brother, controlled by corporations, watches ...
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Social dystopia requiring conformant behavior
I am trying to remember the name of a film I saw where people have to
abandon their own personality and free will to adapt to the standard
of a community, similar in theme to "The Stepford wives". The ...
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