WINNERS announced BRAVE NEW WORLD - Debbie Guzzi's Blog

The Contest based on the reading of Brave New world has filled and the 10 finalists chosen BUT not the ORDER of the winners.

I will be contacting the final 10 and suggesting edits. As always these are your poems but the RANK will be determined AFTER you edit your work.

[IF NO CHANGES ARE NEEDED I WILL TELL YOU. REMEMBER YOU CAN ALWAYS KEEP & REPOST YOUR VERSE IN IT'S ORIGINAL FORM AFTER I JUDGE.]

Brave New World's title derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I,II:

O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.

Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932. Set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F.—"After Ford"—in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that are combined to profoundly change society. Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with Island (1962), his final novel.

In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer included Brave New World chronologically at number 53 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 87 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

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