The future is now In 2017, exactly 35 years after Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) was released in cinemas, moviegoers were once again brought back to the dystopian science-fiction world based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968). The reason for this was the release of Denis Villeneuve’s sequel Blade … Continue reading An Inquiry into the Abiding Popularity of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
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Atonement by Ian McEwan
Her words reverberate in his head. Her words keep him going. They remind him why he has to survive. He has to come back, and live the life he deserves to live. With her. Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement begins five years earlier, on a summer day in 1935 at the Tallis’ family estate in the … Continue reading Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood once said: ''When I wrote the Handmaid's Tale, nothing went into it that had not happened in real life, somewhere in some time.''Finishing her dystopian novel, I can now officially confirm her statement. The Handmaid's Tale is set in the Republic of Gilead, in which the protagonist Offred is one of the Handmaids, … Continue reading The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood