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"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"--
Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will...
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Recorded Books
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[2008]
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English
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A survey of fourteen lectures addressing the idea of utopia, presented by Fred E. Baumann, political science professor and director of the Public Affairs Conference Center at Kenyon College. Examines a number of key works on utopia and discusses efforts to put utopian principles into practice.
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2017.
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"There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed. because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling, idealistic world, and that's before...
4) Island
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In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect...
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Deep Vellum Publishing
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2017.
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English
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Lear, officially known as 24, lives in L'Atlàntide, a post-apocalyptic utopian society placing increasing limits on the use of language. Lear transcribes the writings of Don Hernando, a 16th century Aztec priest living in the early days of colonial Mexico City, and of Estela, a historical anthropologist and first translator of Don Hernando's work, who lives in the late 20th century Mexico City. Though separated by time and space, Lear and Estela...
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Mouseheart volume 2
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
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[2015]
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English
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A brave pet shop mouse named Hopper attempts to rebuild a fallen empire in the underground rat civilization of Atlantia, located in the subway tunnels of Brooklyn, while Queen Felina and her band of street cats declare open season on the rodents.
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