Thanks for the recommendations which I have added to my list. But I must admit that I read only about 1 fiction book per year on average :)
>See if you can find yourself copies of "Stand on Zanzibar" and "The Sheep Look Up" - most especially the latter. both by John Brunner.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014303653X/ref=cm_pdp_rev_itm_img_2>>
>>Although not a book about state control per se he still makes a great argument that we need not fear an Orwellian world but rather a Huxleyian one. Although Orwell was right about many things he was wrong, argues Postman, about needing to fear the state. It was Huxley who foresaw that it was the mind numbing apparatus of mass-media that would turn us all into sheep.
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>>But thanks for the recommendation - I have added it to the list.
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>>>>I don't know who Oceania
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http://www.amazon.com/Why-Orwell-Matters-Christopher-Hitchens/dp/0465030505/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231377314&sr=8-1>>>
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.