| Futurological Congress 1974 | By: Stanislaw Lem | Type: Novel |
| 50 % : Very Vonnegut |
| Review : interesting and bizarre ideas but not as absorbing prose as Vonnegut |
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| comments : He's Polish but the guy in the narrative is American ..strange..
A city is attacked by pharmacutical weapons .."Love Thy Neighbour Bombs" He falls asleep and a large part of the book is a dream about a terrible world, but because of the new drugs people see it as paradise. Does Huxely talk about a happiness drug ? Could it be an allegory for his communist life in Poland where the happiness drug is propaganda ? Interesting how he thinks language will have changed in the future. |
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