After Huxley there must be Komarek...
1988: I read parts of Brave New World for the first time. Because of our English teacher those without any sex. Hard to find...
2013: I read the whole book. It is indeed brilliant, except maybe the shift from Bernard Marx to the Savage as the central figure. The dystopia is indeed stronger than the story line. The final dialogue between Mustapha Mond and John is really fascinating, disturbing and makes you wonder about mankind and society. What is the price that we pay for stability?
2300: I will (most probably) be dead. At least in the form that I inhabit now. This Blog will (hopefully) be banned. We will live in a... oh bugger I am a bad science-fiction writer. I say, it will be different from today.
and now I am reading Alfred Komarek's "Die Villen der Frau Hürsch", very Austrian, very slow, and not very dystopian, with a hint of Schnaps and Schweinsbraten between all the pages...it is like listening to folk music after free jazz and still we walk the same planet, and somehow miss the Bauernbergpark Man, whose brave new world seems to be somewhere else now.
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