Brave New World

A very absurd yet fascinating book. What amazes me is the fact that the author could imagine and write about things that were proven or implemented half a century later.

I looked this up. The book was written in 1931 and published in 1932. Gestation outside the womb was theorized and loosely experimented with in animals in the late 1800s and was actively debated in the 1920s, but the first successful human IVF happened only in 1978—45 years later. The gestation and freezing of embryos, etc.—it’s amazing how he could describe them in such detail.

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1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

Finally, got around to reading this book, and I must say I enjoyed it more than I expected. I was primarily motivated to read it because my 17-year-old son had read it and was very impressed and intrigued by it. This got be curious and I must say there is so much material for discussion. Given the current geopolitical scenario, this should be read to understand why a multi-party democratic system is necessary.

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