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Your every movement is being tracked, your every word recorded. Your spouse may be an informer, your children may be listening at your door, your best friend may be a member of the secret police. You are alone among thousands, among great crowds of the brainwashed, the well-behaved, the loyal. Productivity has never been higher, the media blares, and the army is ever triumphant. One wrong move, one slip-up, and you may find yourself disappeared -- swallowed up by a monstrous bureaucracy, vanished into a shadowy labyrinth of interrogation chambers, show trials, and secret prisons from which no one ever escapes. Welcome to the world of the dystopia, a world of government and society gone horribly, nightmarishly wrong.

What happens when civilization invades and dictates every aspect of your life? From 1984 to The Handmaid's Tale, from Children of Men to Bioshock, the dystopian imagination has been a vital and gripping cautionary force. Brave New Worlds collects the best tales of totalitarian menace by some of today's most visionary writers, including Neil Gaiman, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

When the government wields its power against its own people, every citizen becomes an enemy of the state. Will you fight the system, or be ground to dust beneath the boot of tyranny?

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2010) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Lottery - (1948) - short story by Shirley Jackson
• Red Card - (2007) - short story by S. L. Gilbow
• Ten with a Flag - (2006) - short story by Joseph Paul Haines
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - (1973) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account - (2008) - short story by M. Rickert
• The Funeral - (1972) - novelette by Kate Wilhelm
• O Happy Day! - (1985) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• Pervert - (2004) - short story by Charles Coleman Finlay
• From Homogenous to Honey - (2006) - short story by Neil Gaiman and Bryan Talbot
• Billennium - (1961) - short story by J. G. Ballard
• Amaryllis - (2010) - short story by Carrie Vaughn
• Pop Squad - (2006) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Auspicious Eggs - (2000) - novelette by James Morrow
• Peter Skilling - (2004) - short story by Alexander C. Irvine
• The Pedestrian - (1951) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away - (2008) - novelette by Cory Doctorow
• The Pearl Diver - (2006) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Dead Space for the Unexpected - (1994) - short story by Geoff Ryman
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• Is This Your Day to Join the Revolution? - (2009) - short story by Genevieve Valentine
• Independence Day - (2010) - short fiction by Sarah Langan
• The Lunatics - (1988) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Sacrament - short story by Matt Williamson
• The Minority Report - (1956) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• Just Do It - (2006) - short story by Heather Lindsley
• Harrison Bergeron - (1961) - short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Caught in the Organ Draft - (1972) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Geriatric Ward - (2008) - short story by Orson Scott Card
• Arties Aren't Stupid - (2008) - short story by Jeremiah Tolbert
• Jordan's Waterhammer - (1999) - short story by Joe Mastroianni
• Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs - (2003) - novelette by Adam-Troy Castro
• Resistance - (2008) - short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• Civilization - (2007) - short story by Vylar Kaftan
• For Further Reading - (2010) - essay by Ross E. Lockhart

Some edtions also include:

• Personal Jesus - (2010) - shortstory by Jennifer Pelland
• The Perfect Match - (2012) - shortstory by Ken Liu
• The Cull - (2010) - short story by Robert Reed
• Study Guide and Filmography - (2012) - essay by Gary K. Wolfe

Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future-where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.

When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.