Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Huxley's astonishing vision of an engineered future where citizens are chemically conditioned into castes, pacified by state-issued soma, and stripped of individuality in the name of collective stability.
Read Time: ~5.2 hr
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood (1985)
About this book
In the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that has overthrown the United States government, women are stripped of all rights, and the few remaining fertile females are forced into sexual servitude as Handmaids.
Setting / LocationRepublic of Gilead (Former Cambridge, MA)
Story EraNear-Future Gilead Theocracy
Protagonist / CoreOffred
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