Lately, I have gained quite an interest in dystopian fiction, as you may have noticed from my posts about Half-Life-2 and Uglies. For my independent novel, I am reading the dystopian classic Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It is a story about a future where human reproduction has been industralized: human empryos are grown in labs and processed like an assembly line. Indeed, one person revered by the populace is Henry Ford, who first applied the assembly line concept to cars.
I have noticed that there are two kinds of dystopian settings. One of these is the bleak police state type empire, like in 1984 and the video game Half-Life-2. In these settings the government directly oppresses their citizens. The other type of dystopia, seen in Brave New World and Uglies, is a world that seems like paradise, but but when you think about it, life is rendered pointless. Oftentimes there are sinister secrets behind the happy facade. This type of dystopian literature provokes many interesting questions about humanity and civilization.
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