LovedMockingbird kind of recycled a lot of Brave New World, but added in some little tiny pieces that I thought Philip K. Dick would have been really proud of.
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Mockingbird (1979)
Creators: Liked In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, a handful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a post-apocalyptic, dying landscape. People wander, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss, through a barren landscape with no children, no art, where reading is forbidden. From this bleak existence, a tragic love triangle springs forth. Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, runs the world, but his only wish is to die. Paul and Mary Lou are a man and a woman whose passion for each other sparks a jealousy in Spofforth—and provides the only hope for the future of human beings on earth.
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LovedI have six finalists for my book of the year on the fiction side.
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Likedeven though it's good neither is mocking bird is other s novel his best works by far are the Manu falter worth and the wonderful Queen's Gambit
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Nazareth Chornyak, the most talented linguist of the family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for trade organizations, supervising the children's language education, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth comes to discover is that a slow revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them from men's control.
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