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Privacy: Exploring The Issues through Fiction May 2016
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Brave new world
by Aldous Huxley
First published 70 years ago, the classic, prophetic novel capturing the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia remarkably explores the now-timely themes of cloning, individual creativity and freedom, and the role of science, technology, and drugs in humankind's future.
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Nineteen eighty-four : a novel
by George Orwell
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities
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Whiskey tango foxtrot
by David Shafer
Three young adults band together and form Dear Diary, an underground organization aimed at fighting The Committee, an international group of industrialists and media moguls who want to privatize all online information.
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The circle : a novel
by Dave Eggers
Hired to work for the world's most powerful Internet company, Mae Holland questions her luck as life beyond her job grows distant, an encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, and her role at the company becomes increasingly public
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Little brother
by Cory Doctorow
Having mastered the cutting-edge technologies of the networked world, seventeen-year-old Marcus and his friends cut school in search of high adventure and find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco and wrongfully incarcerated in a secret prison by a totalitarian Department of Homeland Security. 50,000 first printing.
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For us, the living : a comedy of customs
by Robert A. Heinlein
In a long-lost first novel by the late master of speculative fiction, published 15 years after the author's death, Heinlein explores themes which are familiar to us from his later iconic works. This first novel reads more as a group of dialogues on social topics including privacy. The plot describes a 1930s man transported to the radically different world of 2086, one marked by a United Europe, the destruction of Manhattan island by two helicopters, and other changes in the economy, legal system, and the relationships between men and women. Not for everyone, but a worthy addition to this list for its author's knack for exploring these issues with depth and insight.
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