Bill the Galctic Hero, by Harry Harrison
Clockwork Orange
Brave New World is appropriate now in light of Planned Parenthood
work on humans and genetic engineering.
Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder these poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miser- able. Their world didn't allow them to take things easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the pover- ty-they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?
“Clockwork Orange”
I love anthony burgess, clockwork orange was a great reading experience, esp. as you learn the lingo of the hoolingans.
Another one of his I love is “one hand clapping”.
I attended a Science Fiction Writers of America meeting in Los Angeles many years ago, and met Harry Harrison there. I told him that story was one of the funniest things I ever read. I read it while on a plane from Washington to the West Coast, and it was all I could do to keep from laughing out loud on the plane. He said he was having fun with one writer after another.
ADD drugs and anti-depressants prescribed on a wide scale, too, make Brave New World very prescient.