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TITLE: Even Braver New World State
RELEASE DATE:
February 15, 2017
AUTHOR: Rick K.
Reut
PAGE COUNT: 276
ISBN: 978-1542507950
IMPRINT: Devil’s Tower
KEYWORDS:
Transsexual, Transgender, Trans-human, Biotechnology, Dystopia, LGBT, Science
Fiction
CATEGORIES:
Science Fiction/Dystopian/LGBT
ONE LINER:
The story is a
sequel and a sort of a counterpoint to Aldous Huxley’s classic modernist
masterpiece Brave New World.
SYNOPSIS:
The story is a
sequel to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. It takes place seventy-seven summers
since. The World State has changed considerably, having taken a
bio-technological turn towards transsexualism, on the one hand, and
technology-provided social-communism, on the other. The only place this
post-gender and post-capitalist progress hasn’t pervaded yet is the reservation
area of so-called Isolated Islands, where Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson
were to be exiled at the end of the original book.
The protagonist
of this story is Bernard’s grandson, Adam Marx, who, being disappointed with
his life on the world’s margins, longs for the Mainland. But it looks like his
dream can never come true, for there is no place for a naturally born man in a society
of biotechnological mutants. Fortunately or unfortunately for him, however, his
cravings happen to coincide with an ongoing campaign of one of the ten current
World State’s Controllers, pursuing Its own political purposes.
AUTHOR BIO:
I was born in a small Belarusian town called Borisov, which was still a
part of the USSR in the ice-cold-war winter of a more than symbolic 1984, in a
world so hopelessly Orwellian that it is still falling apart from sleepless
dreams to become brave new. This may as well be the reason for my first book
title.
Growing up on American Movies and British Rock Music made me Bilingual.
Trilingual, if you count the dying Belarusian language we were customarily made
to study at school. I could even go as far as calling myself “quad-lingual”
every time I recall the revolting bits and pieces of minced German tongue the
teachers tried their worst to force down my throat in college. But, to the
pseudo-patriotic pride and pleasure of an unnaturally born Brit, they failed
miserably. However, as an outcome of the conditioned reflex I acquired at that
time, I still run for a plastic bag each time I hear the Reich Kanzler open her
mouth on TV.
An avid reader of American and English literature since high school,
starting with Jack London’s Martin Eden, I have always been madly in love with
the language and its literary legacy. This love may also be responsible for the
monstrous mixture of an American Englishman at heart and an Australian of New
Zealand’s breed somewhere below the equatorial belt I am today. Yes, and a
Belarusian neck up, which I try my best to hide behind a philosopher’s beard in
shame for my country’s current political regime.
I began to write lyrics in English around the age of 15, in Russian
around 18, in prose around 20, and in letters around the whole wide world in
two years of unrequited affection that made me consider the pastime seriously.
And so I wrote. Mostly for and to myself, but then more and more frequently to
others. Despite the latter’s enduring encouragement, I’d never tried publishing
outside the campus community. That is, not till now.
Having studied up to a BA in both literature and philosophy in 2006 and
2010, respectively, I also happen to be the author of two theses: “The Problem
of Post-Gender Identity in Contemporary Social Theory” (in Russian; Department
of Philosophy, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania) and “Pulp
Fiction 2, from Shakespeare 2 Tarantino and Back, an Inter-Textual Language
Analysis of the Evolution of the Dramatic Genre from the 16th Century Play to
the 20th Century Screenplay” (in English; Department of Philology, St.
Petersburg’s State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, a Pilot Program in
Collaboration with Bard College of Liberal Arts, USA).
All this academic abracadabra, however, is hardly of any help when it
comes to making the mentioned sleepless dreams come true unless someone gives
them a little literary lift.
EMAIL: evenbravernewworld@gmail.com
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