Paris in the 20th CenturyJules Verne
Paris in the 20th Century
by Jules Verne · first published 2022
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I highly recommend people who find 1984 and Brave New World interesting also read Jules Verne's lost novel "Paris in the 20th Century". It's dystopian in an entirely different way. It talks not about the extremes of state-based censorship from 1984 or of the indifference of the blissed-out citizens of Brave New World but the far more…
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