Showing posts with label dystopia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dystopia. Show all posts

25 Perfect Days by Mark Tullius

Originally Published on Bookish Ardour 08.08.2013

A totalitarian state doesn’t just happen overnight. It’s a slow, dangerous slide. 25 Perfect Days chronicles the path into a hellish future of food shortages, contaminated water, sweeping incarceration, an ultra-radical religion, and the extreme measures taken to reduce the population.

Higher taxes, strict gun control, an oppressive healthcare system. Complete media control, genetically modified food, experimentation on citizens. The push of depersonalising technology, unending wars, government sanctioned assassinations. Is this collection of stories merely science fiction or soon to be fact? Are these policies designed for the greater good or disguised to benefit a chosen few at the expense of the masses? Is this brave new world the best we could do or part of a sinister grand plan?

Through these twenty-five interlinked stories, each written from a different character’s point of view, 25 Perfect Days captures the sacrifice, courage, and love needed to survive and eventually overcome this dystopian nightmare.

My Review 

2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut

Originally Published on Bookish Ardour 09.04.2011

A Short Summary

It’s a bit hard to find a proper synopsis of 2BR02B to share with you so instead I’m going to post something about it myself followed by my review. All that you need to know really is that 2BR02B is a science fiction/dystopian short story. Yeah, I’ve never been good at summaries unless it’s extremely detailed.

My Review

I think it might be possible that I may become a Kurt Vonnegut fan. I want his book Bagombo Snuff Box (which has 2BR02B), but I haven’t actually read any of his work until now with 2BR02B (pronounced 2 b r naught 2 b).

Sometimes I love a good short story and sometimes I get a little frustrated. I am a little frustrated with 2BR02B, but that’s mainly because I want to read more about the world. I love the concept of a dystopian society with population control. Granted that there is an argument in there based on pro-population control and saying that the year 2,000 wasn’t liveable because of it, giving over to population control in the first place, but if I can see past that it doesn’t bother me overly much.